What is REACH test? What does REACH mainly test?

Date：2022-12-08 14:51:05Views：511

REACH test is the EU market regulation on the registration, evaluation, licensing and restriction of chemicals; Use and content of toxic and harmful substances restricted in REACH regulations. It is the abbreviation of the European Union Regulation "Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals", a chemical regulatory system established by the European Union and implemented since June 1, 2007.

This is a regulation proposal involving the safety of chemical production, trade and use. The regulation aims to protect human health and environmental safety, maintain and improve the competitiveness of the European chemical industry, as well as the innovative ability to develop non-toxic and harmless compounds, prevent market fragmentation, increase the transparency of chemical use, promote non animal experiments, and pursue sustainable social development. REACH has established the idea that society should not introduce new materials, products or technologies if their potential hazards are unknown.

REACH Directive requires that all chemicals imported and produced in Europe must pass a set of comprehensive procedures such as registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction, so as to better and more simply identify the ingredients of chemicals to achieve the purpose of ensuring environmental and human safety.

REACH test is to test the chemicals in REACH regulations to see if the chemicals exceed the limit value. If the chemicals do not exceed the limit, a test report can be issued for the qualified products. If the products do not exceed the limit, they will be rectified and retested. If the products pass the retest, a qualified REACH test report will be issued.

REACH test items

If your products are exported to EU and other countries, you should pay attention to the safety and environmental protection of materials. REACH testing in EU countries has stipulated requirements. If you export to EU countries, you can apply for REACH test, which will make your products very competitive. What are the items tested by REAHC. At present, SVHC, a substance of high concern in REACH testing regulations, has been published successively, and now there are 183 substances in total. For organic products, a full set of 183 items need to be tested during REACH testing. If it is an inorganic product, 55 items need to be tested.

REACH requirements

REACH mainly requires to prove that daily products do not contain chemical substances harmful to human body. Therefore, all daily products produced in the EU or imported into the EU market, mainly textiles, must pass the registration, inspection and approval of the content of harmful chemicals. Once the content exceeds the specified value, they cannot be sold in the EU market.

REACH covers the product range

EU REACH will involve 30000 kinds of chemical substances, that is, nearly 1/3 of the 100000 existing chemical substances on the EU market. The detection will take a gradual way, gradually increasing the types of substances to be detected in 3, 6 or 11 years, but before 2013, priority will be given to the detection of harmful substances or substances with large import volume. Within three years from now, we will start from the test of 1 ton per year. All products containing dangerous substances, such as carcinogens, mutagens and toxic substances during reproduction, must first be registered and passed the test.

Purpose of REACH implementation

Protect human health and environment, maintain and improve the competitiveness of EU chemical industry; Increase the transparency of chemical information; Reduce vertebrate test; Be consistent with the EU's international obligations under the WTO framework; In essence, REACH will create a unified chemical management system within the EU to enable enterprises to produce new chemicals and their products in accordance with the unified principle.

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