It is a given that mandatory registration for polymers will come. The legal framework for it, including notification and registration deadlines, will be defined in the proposed revision of REACH, which should be published by the end of this year. However, the exact information that registrants will need for the…
A team of scientists from ETH University in Zurich analyzed 22 chemical inventories from 19 countries and regions and discovered that around 350,000 chemicals and chemical mixtures have been registered around the world – three times more than originally estimated. The leader of the study, Zhanyun Wang, presented the results…
The EU Commission would like to develop a proposal for the registration of selected polymers by 2022. According to Chemical Watch, the Commission announced its plans to participants in the CARACAL meeting at the beginning of November 2019. So far, neither registration nor evaluation of polymers has been required by…
EU experts have published a study that examines various options for the registration of polymers. They studied the approaches to registration in various countries, including Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zeeland, China, and South Korea. One approach organizes polymers into groups and registers the groups. Another option would classify polymers according…