EU ROUND UP – MIXTURES TO GET SPECIAL REACH SCREENING
October 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHEMICAL mixtures and preparations - covering almost all paints and coatings - are to get a special screening by inspectors to ensure their chemical ingredients have been registered under REACH, the European Union (EU) chemical control system. The pledge from the REACH Forum for Exchange of Information comes as the first key REACH registration deadline approaches - November 30, covering bulk and especially dangerous chemicals. A meeting of the forum in Helsinki from October 12-14 heard that a new enforcement project 'REACH-EN-FORCE 2' would, ...
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