REACH is a new
European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use which stands
for
Registration, Evaluation,
and Authorization of Chemical
substances. The
pre-registration phase started in June 2008.
The aim of
REACH is to improve the protection of human health and the environment
through the better and earlier identification of the intrinsic properties of
chemical substances.
The REACH
Regulation gives greater responsibility to industry to manage the risks from
chemicals and to provide safety information on the substances. Manufacturers
and importers will be required to gather information on the properties of
their chemical substances, which will allow their safe handling, and to
register the information in a central database run by the European
Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in
Helsinki
Finland
.
REACH
provisions will be phased-in over 11 years.
A copy of
our REACH certificate is available here: Reach
Certificate
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