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Friday 7 March 2008

SOCMA opposes IST legislation

Joe Acker, president of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association (SOCMA), said his trade group is “stridently opposed to the merits of mandating inherently safer technology under the guise of site security”. Acker's comments follow the approval by the House Committee on Homeland Security approved the “Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2008" which includes the inherently safer technology (IST) reporting requirement.
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