NEW EU BIOCIDES REGULATION – CLEANROOMS WILL NEED TO CHECK WHETHER THEIR BIOCIDES WILL REMAIN LEGAL
March 1st, 2013
IT is perhaps a cruel irony that biocidal chemicals used by cleanroom managers to produce a pristine environment should have such a complex – some might say messy – regulatory system in the European Union (EU). But it is the truth.Biocides are not treated like other chemicals, which are generally regulated under the EU’s chemical control system REACH. They have special approval rules – governed until this September 1 by the EU biocidal products directive (BPD) 98/8/EC and from that date an EU regulation (EU) No 528/2012 concerning the making available on ...
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