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Posted By Stephen D. Clarke
Can anyone explain why there is a need for the new european REACH regulations on chemicals. In the UK aren't we adequately covered by COSHH and CHIP and isn't that enough? Why the need for these new regs?
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Posted By Alan Hoskins
On the BBC news this morning they were suggesting that REACH would affect substances used in domestic situations such as the usual under-the-sink cleaning products.
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Posted By John Murgatroyd
A good thing too, have you read what's in some of that stuff ?
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Posted By Alan Hoskins
Yeah! but if you aren't using it at work it doesn't matter... does it?
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Posted By Jonathan Breeze
Hmm, it takes a certain amount of genius don't you think, to upset everyone from anti-vivisectionists to industrialists, purely to patch up a loophole in existing legislation which allows 'old' chemicals to continue to be used whilst effectivly preventing innovation.
How long before tabloid headlines of "EU Bans Bleach Because it Kills All Known Germs" I wonder?
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Posted By Stephen D. Clarke
I'm curious to know what if anything they will decide to do about benzene - banned for many years throughout industry except in research establishments where the MEL is 10ppm or thereabouts, an established human carcinogen - yet typically present in the petroleum we all buy on the garage forecourt at a level of 1-3% i.e. 100,000-300,000ppm.
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter
Since the aim of REACH is to ensure that many previously exempt materials (those in use before 1981) are safety tested, I think it will have little impact on benzene as we already know the hazards.
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Posted By Helen Horton
Having worked on verifying listing of raw materials in EINECS and EILINCS for a major chemical user in the 1980s, I can say that very few of the materials in the original lists and inventories were not tested. I don't see the point of this new legislation at least not in terms of H&S it looks more like EU protectionism to me. So yes I think it is a REACH too far!
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