What Is REACH?

Complete REACH Implementation & Consulting by YASH

REACH stands for Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization and restriction of Chemicals, designed to regulate the manufacture, import, marketing and use of chemicals. It is a new regulation on chemicals that was introduced across the European Union on June 1, 2007.

How will REACH affect your business?

Under REACH, manufacturers, importers and downstream users are required to provide data showing that the manufacture/import/use of a substance does not adversely affect human health and that risks are adequately controlled. Information on chemical properties and safe uses of chemicals will be communicated up and down the supply chain.

Obligations under REACH are:

Registration: Every manufacturer and importer of chemicals in volumes of 1 tonne or more per year will have to register them with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), submitting information on properties, usage and safe ways of handling them. They can use existing data and share the data among similar substance manufacturers.

The producers and importers will also have to pass the safety information on to 'downstream users' manufacturers, that use these chemicals in their production processes, so that they know how to use the substances without creating risks for their workers, the end consumers and the environment.

Evaluation: Through evaluation, public authorities will look in more detail at registration dossiers and at substances of concern. They can request more information if necessary. REACH makes data sharing on animal test results compulsory and prescribes the use of alternative methods wherever possible.

Authorization: Use-specific authorization will be required for chemicals that cause cancer, mutations or problems with reproduction, or that accumulate in human bodies and the environment. Authorization will be granted only to companies that can show that the risks are adequately controlled or if social and economic benefits outweigh the risks where there are no suitable alternative substances or technologies.

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