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The new EU legislation cxo cockpit on chemicals and their use, known as REACH (or Regulation concerning the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation cxo cockpit of Chemicals and restrictions applicable to those substances) came into force on 1 June 2007. Its purpose is to better protect human health and the environment from the risks that can be posed by chemicals, the promotion of alternative methods for assessment of hazards cxo cockpit of substances and improve their handling and use in all sectors of industry.
Before the adoption of the REACH Regulation, the assessment of the risks posed by chemicals was largely the responsibility of the regulatory authorities, which also returned the obligation to provide data on their safety. Under the new legislation of the European Union, it is now up to industry to demonstrate the safety of their products.
Manufacturers and importers of chemicals must collect data on the properties of their chemical substances and save this data (from June 1, 2008) in a central database run by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) , based in Helsinki.
The safety data on chemicals made to the database can be consulted by experts and the general public, improving the handling and use of substances. cxo cockpit In addition, under the new system, manufacturers can now check for which uses a particular substance has been registered as safe, allowing them to replace any known dangerous substance with a safer substance.
In addition to improving the protection of human health and the environment against the risks that may arise chemicals and improve their handling and use in all industry sectors, REACH also aims to promote alternative methods for assessment of hazards of substances by placing cxo cockpit the development of alternatives to animal testing as a priority for future European research. When testing methods not involving animals have been validated, REACH will be adapted to progressively exclude and as quickly as possible tests on animals.
In the European Union, health tests and safety chemicals are required only since 1981. Under the new REACH over 100,000 substances placed on the market cxo cockpit before 1981 should be stored in the new database. Over the next 10 years, thousands cxo cockpit of new and existing chemicals are therefore recorded by ECHA, as the new REACH Regulation will gradually implemented.
Companies that manufacture or import a chemical at or above 1 tonne per year or who think do under the REACH registration schedule cxo cockpit amounts are to pre-register the substance to the European Agency chemicals (ECHA) between 1 June and 1 December 2008. If they do not meet this deadline, they will