...Make sure that your supply network understands REACH and its need to pre-register otherwise your company may face a potential supply disruption. The new European Union-wide law entitled "Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals", or REACH, went into effect on June 1, 2007. The title would make one think that it's a chemical-related law, so why do manufacturers of electronic products, termed "articles" in REACH-speak, need to worry about a chemical substance regulation?... more...

...Nine months after the adoption of strict new EU health and safety rules for the sector (REACH), high-level stakeholders from the chemicals industry gathered in the first of a series of meetings aimed at boosting the competitiveness of a sector representing 5% of Europe's GDP.... more...

...Smithers Rapra Technology, a subsidiary of the US-based independent testing, consulting and contract research organisation, The Smithers Group, has added Antwerp to the list of destinations for their growing series of REACH conferences.... more...

...The chemicals sector has improved its environmental performance in the past year, according to an annual report from the Environment Agency. Spotlight on Business 2006 shows that 48 % of chemical sites were rated A for their operator performance, up from 42 % in 2005. More then 80% of sites received either an A or B rating. Greenhouse gases released from the sector’s sites were down 9% on 2005 and the reduction was "linked to a general decrease in energy uses".... more...

...Support for REACH compliance is now available with the industry's most affordable and comprehensive Material and Substance Data management software, the award-winning MDW-ES from The GoodBye Chain Group. The European Union's Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) Directive came into force on June 1, 2007. Replacing more than 40 previous regulations, it entails a highly complex set of requirements that are geared specifically for "Downstream User" product manufacturers and component suppliers, as well as for substance manufacturers and importers.... more...

...Thirty years ago, as a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, I published papers in Science magazine calling for the ban of brominated and chlorinated Tris, two flame retardants used in children’s sleepwear. Both forms of Tris caused mutations in DNA, and leached from pajamas into children’s bodies. In 1977, when brominated Tris was found to be a potent carcinogen, the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned Tris from children’s sleepwear... more...