REACH standard
REACH is the abbreviation of EU regulation "REGULATION concerning the Registration, evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals". It was established by the European Union and implemented on June 1, 2007. Regulatory system. This is a regulatory proposal involving the safety of chemical production, trade, and use. The regulations are designed to protect human health and environmental safety, maintain and improve the competitiveness of the EU chemical industry, and develop innovative capabilities for non-toxic and harmless compounds to prevent market fragmentation , Increase transparency in the use of chemicals, promote non-animal experiments, and pursue sustainable social development.
Basic Information
REACH is the abbreviation of EU regulation "REGULATION concerning the Registration, evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals". It was established by the European Union and implemented on June 1, 2007. Regulatory system. This is a regulatory proposal involving the safety of chemical production, trade, and use. The regulations are designed to protect human health and environmental safety, maintain and improve the competitiveness of the EU chemical industry, and develop innovative capabilities for non-toxic and harmless compounds to prevent market fragmentation , Increase transparency in the use of chemicals, promote non-animal experiments, and pursue sustainable social development.
The REACH Directive requires that all chemicals imported and produced in Europe must go through a comprehensive set of procedures such as registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction, in order to better and more simply identify the chemical components to achieve the purpose of ensuring environmental and human safety. The directive mainly includes several major items such as registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction. Any product must have a registration file that lists the chemical ingredients, and explain how the manufacturer uses these chemical ingredients and the toxicity assessment report. All information will be entered into a database under construction. The database is managed by a new EU agency, the European Chemical Agency, located in Helsinki, Finland. The agency will evaluate each file, and if chemicals are found to have an impact on human health or the environment, they may take more stringent measures. Based on the evaluation of several factors, chemicals may be banned or require approval before they can be used.
Authentication purpose
Protect human health and the environment; maintain and improve the competitiveness of the EU chemical industry; increase the transparency of chemical information; reduce vertebrate testing; consistent with the EU’s international obligations under the WTO framework.
In a substantial sense, the REACH regulation will promote the innovation of the chemical industry, make it produce safer products, and stimulate competition and growth. Different from the current complex regulatory system, REACH will create a unified chemical management system within the EU, enabling companies to follow the same principles to produce new chemicals and their products.
REACH regulations
REACH is the abbreviation of REGULATION concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REGULATION concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals), established by the European Union and implemented on June 1, 2007 Regulatory system.
This is a regulatory proposal involving the safety of chemical production, trade, and use. The regulations are designed to protect human health and environmental safety, maintain and improve the competitiveness of the EU chemical industry, and develop innovative capabilities for non-toxic and harmless compounds to prevent market fragmentation , Increase transparency in the use of chemicals, promote non-animal experiments, and pursue sustainable social development. The REACH Directive requires that all chemicals imported and produced in Europe must go through a comprehensive set of procedures such as registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction, in order to better and more simply identify the chemical components to achieve the purpose of ensuring environmental and human safety. The directive mainly includes several major items such as registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction. Any product must have a registration file that lists the chemical ingredients, and explain how the manufacturer uses these chemical ingredients and the toxicity assessment report. All information will be entered into a database under construction. The database is managed by a new EU agency, the European Chemical Agency, located in Helsinki, Finland. The agency will evaluate each file, and if chemicals are found to have an impact on human health or the environment, they may take more stringent measures. Based on the evaluation of several factors, chemicals may be banned or require approval before they can be used. According to the introduction, unlike the RoHS directive, REACH covers a much wider range. In fact, it will affect products and manufacturing processes in almost all industries, from mining to textiles and garments, light industry, electromechanical and so on. REACH requires manufacturers to register each chemical component in a product, there are about 30,000 in total-and to measure its potential hazards to public health. REACH has established the concept that society should not introduce new materials, products or technologies if their potential hazards are unknown.
REACH standard
REACH53 is a regulation for the 28 member states of the European Union to conduct preventive management of all chemicals entering their markets, especially household products. At present, the three major environmental protection standards agreed by the international home furnishing industry are: DMF (skin allergic elements), REACH53, and CARB standards. The three are complementary environmental protection systems, and there is no overlap between them. The series of home environmental protection standards are fed by famous domestic brands The group initiated an advocacy. Its Federal Mini Eco-friendly sofa series promised to comply with international environmental standards and called for the protection of consumer rights. On December 18, 2006, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union formally adopted chemical registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction regulations (ie REACH regulations) to implement preventive management of all chemicals entering the EU market. The regulation came into effect on June 1, 2007 and will be implemented on June 1 of the following year. The competent authority is the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). In China, This standard requires that 53 substances of very high concern (SVHC) in all chemicals with an annual output of more than 1 ton cannot exceed 0.1% of the total weight of the article. This standard does not matter from the content of the test items, technical requirements, limited parameters, and testing. For complexity, supply chain control system, etc., domestic standards have not yet been implemented. 1. Judging from the content of the test items, in addition to the substances listed in the country, there are already in REACH53 items, and there are 48 items in REACH53 items plus other chemicals; 2, from the perspective of technical requirements, the ratio of the limit parameters of REACH53 environmental protection standards The domestic standards are dozens of times more stringent; 3. From the perspective of testing complexity, REACH53 was initially implemented in 1976, and has been committed to gradual improvement. From the implementation of the first batch of 15 items in 2008 to the current 53 items, There are planned and sustainable development regulations. The goal of this regulation is to be consistent with the EU's international obligations under the WTO framework to protect human health and promote a non-toxic environment; 4. From the perspective of the supply chain control system, this regulation The operation must be traced back to the most upstream supply system, and it must be a transparent and systematic step to be completed.
specific contents
The REACH regulation stipulates that the REACH regulation for chemicals and other tangible products entering the EU market stipulates that manufacturers and importers of chemicals and other tangible products entering the EU market have the following obligations:
(1) Registration
(Compile and submit a detailed report including the test data of each chemical substance contained in the product.) In the REACH regulation, the scope of registration of chemical substances mainly includes:
1. Independently existing substances or substances in preparations with a quantity ≥ 1 ton/year/person;
2. The unregistered content (weight ratio) of the upstream supplier is ≥2% and the total amount is ≥1 ton/year/person in the form of monomer units or chemically bound substances in the polymer. Body or other substances;
3. Substances in articles that are intentionally released under normal or reasonably foreseeable use conditions (substances in articles) with a total amount> 1 ton/year/person;
4. If the total amount is> 1 ton/year/person, the Chemicals Bureau has reason to suspect that the substances in the articles that will be released from the articles and that such releases are harmful to the human body or the environment, the Chemicals Bureau may require registration.
In REACH regulations, the substances exempted from registration are:
1. 1 ton/year/person of material
2. Radioactive material
3. Those that do not do any processing or processing under the supervision of the customs: (1) Temporary storage for re-export, or in a bonded area or bonded warehouse; or (2) Transit
4. Non-isolated intermediates
5. Means of transportation of dangerous substances
6. Waste
7. Member States exempted due to national defense
8. Medicine or veterinary medicine
9. Additives, food flavoring and animal nutrition in food or feed
10. Substances in Annex IV (known to be very low risk)
11. Substances in Annex V
12. Re-import the registered substance itself or the substance in the product
13. When the registered substance itself, the product or the substance in the article is reprocessed (recovery process)
14. Polymer (polymer itself) (but the unregistered content [weight ratio] in the upstream supplier ≥ 2% and the total amount ≥ 1 ton/year in the form of monomer units or chemically bound substances) Except for monomers or other substances present in the polymer)
15. Chemical substances used only for products or research and development (PPORD) (5+5/10 years)
16. Active ingredients and excipients (co-formulants) only used in plant protection products (deemed as registered)
17. Active ingredients used only in biocides (deemed as registered)
18. According to Directive 79/831/EEC, substances that have been notified of new chemical substances (deemed as registered)
REACH requirements
The main content of REACH is to require proof that daily-use products do not contain chemical substances harmful to the human body. Therefore, all daily-use products produced in the EU or imported into the EU market, which mainly refer to textiles, must pass the registration, inspection and approval of the content of harmful chemical substances. Once the content exceeds the prescribed content, they cannot be sold on the EU market.