EU ROUND UP – ECHA REVISES PROPOSED CADMIUM IN PAINT BAN
October 1st, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has proposed revised restrictions on the use of cadmium and its compounds in paints, allowing trace elements under certain circumstances. The revised proposal also bans cadmium where it is more than 0.01% by weight of a paint, (0.1% for paints with a zinc content of more than 10% by weight), while the earlier proposal had no maximum, simply saying that cadmium “shall not be used in paints”.Also, painted articles are banned from sale across the EU under the new rule, if cadmium is equal to or greater than 0.1% by weight of ...
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