THE SEVEN LISTS OF COMPLIANCE FOR REACH SVHC

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEM TO BE COMPLIANT In last week’s post, we reviewed REACH and an overview of the number of chemicals/substances regulated by REACH. This week, we will go into additional details on the impact of the regulation. A central point of REACH is that it does not just impact or restrict itself to the chemical industry. The regulation is designed to improve/reduce the environmental impact of all products from the manufacture, transportation, import, export, sale, use and ultimately disposal or recycling phase of a product. In other words, producers, distributors, retailers and consumers must be concerned about the environmental impact of everything they produce, sell or use through a products entire lifecycle. REACH regulates almost all substances manufactured or imported into the EU market above one ton per year. If a product contains a Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC), it will require some form of

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