Good scientific writing

Confirmation that scientific writing can be clear and accessible to the public.     [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MPDISCOVER-JAN-FEB-2023.pdf” title=”MPDISCOVER JAN-FEB 2023″]   Discover magazine is one of my small stable of monthly reads.         TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional … Read more

Some lessons learned from the new CLP Delegated Act on new hazard classes

Sometime tomorrow, 20 February, a new Delegated Act will be published.  amending Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 as regards hazard classes and criteria for the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures  I will add the final text tomorrow. I thought I’d take a quiet Sunday to try and recreate the key dates from my … Read more

The lack of public scrutiny of EU secondary legislation

  I remember folklore children’s tales making the point that lawmaking should be public. Draft laws were posted in the town square giving all – peasants, traders and rich – the opportunity to give feedback. It is something I wish the Commission adopted. Most EU laws don’t benefit from public feedback. In tandem with this, … Read more