Every third consumer product contains substances of very high concern (SVHCs). That’s the finding of a study undertaken as part of an EU project, LIFE AskREACH. The German Federal Environmental Agency also participated in the study and published the results at the beginning of September. Overall, some 106 leisure, garden,…
Consumers throughout the EU can now use the Scan4Chem app to inform themselves about the presence of substances of very high concern (SVHCs) in products. As announced by the Danish Environmental Ministry in a press release (Danish only), the app can be downloaded free of charge from the Apple App Store or Google Play. The German Environment Ministry notes that the German version of...
Not even 50% of companies feel that they have good information about the presence of SVHC in their products. That’s the result of an online survey taken as part of the pan-European AskREACH project between June and September 2018. 174 product vendors in 12 EU countries were surveyed, including 67…
