REACH STARTS ROLL OUT WITH TEETHING TROUBLES, BUT NO DISASTERS FOR COSMETICS SECTOR
March 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IF the number of notifications received by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) for pre-registering the use of chemicals by businesses making or importing chemicals in Europe is a gauge of success, then the new REACH control system is performing with aplomb. There were 150,000 substances pre-registered with ECHA by 65,000 companies between June 1 and December 1, of last year, in 2.75 million preregistrations. This was well above expectations, so much so that ECHA officials continued to check registrations well into this year - they had planned ...
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