Is it a legal requirement in England for owners and operators of existing (outdoor and indoor) fields / all weather sports pitches to measure the concentrations of PAHs and other substances in the rubber granules used intheir fields and make this informaiton available?

or is this just a 'suggestion' by the ECHA (European Chemicals Agency) -

i can find very little on this - ECHA page has it has a hot topic but can't find anything UK related.

Any advice / thorughts appreciated.

Thanks

Operators as down stream users are reliant upon the importer or manufacturer ensuring their market offering is compliant with supply chain regulation.

The supplier is meant to ensure the product meets the requirements of REACH which in the case of PAH's means there is a prescribed maximum of certain substances which can be present in articles likely to come in to consumer skin contact Entry 50 of the Restriction list https://echa.europa.eu/documents/10162/176064a8-0896-4124-87e1-75cdf2008d59 which came in to force December 2015.

For a post 2015 installation I would revert to the supplier and ask them the question. If they do not know I may consider testing at a Consumer Product test laboratory.

Unfortunately for tyre recyclers there is now a recommenmdation to the commission to further reduce the permissable quantity from 100 mg/kg or 0.01% to 20 mg/kg or 0.002% https://echa.europa.eu/-/echa-s-scientific-committees-support-restricting-pahs-in-granules-and-mulches

Anyone buying these materials should be asking their supplier how prepared they are for such a change.

There is no legal obligation to make the information available to the public using the facility.

However as many of these PAH are also candidate Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) your supplier could get an information request for Substances in Articles but the current threshold for declaration is 0.1% w/w