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Ensuring access to the European market requires a comprehensive understanding of the National and Union level chemical Regulations and Directives. As legislators introduce further regulations and enforcement measures for non-compliance in their continued efforts to protect human and environmental health, organisations can minimise future risk and ensure customer satisfaction by maintaining compliance.
Failure to abide by regulations can result in enforcement actions including goods being stopped at import, fines, and criminal prosecution.
Working with a reliable, informed partner can ensure organisations have maximum notice of the impending changes affecting their products, while providing insight to the future regulatory landscape.
Providing support with: CLP, Poison Centres, UK and EU REACH, SCIP, Safety Data Sheets, Horizon Scanning, and Emergency Response
Ensuring access to the US market requires a comprehensive understanding of the Federal and State specific chemical Regulations, Acts and Standards. As legislators introduce further regulations and enforcement measures for non-compliance in their continued efforts to protect human and environmental health, organizations can minimize future risk and ensure customer satisfaction by maintaining compliance.
Failure to comply with these regulations can result in enforcement measures such as goods being stopped at borders, penalties, fines, and even criminal prosecution.
Designed by regulatory experts to support organisations with maintaining compliance by providing a consolidated view of changes and updates, our reports save you time, and condense complex legalities into accessible, easily digestible outputs.
Distributed proactively when regulatory updates are announced or adopted, our reports provide you the maximum opportunity to make strategic decisions and can be tailored to the specific requirements of your product portfolio and trade markets.
Chemical regulations are constantly evolving and diversification between national and regional regulations can be a major issue for companies wishing to supply to EU, UK, North America, Asia or other markets across the globe. Therefore maintaining regulatory compliance requires regular inventory reviews combined with up-to-date regulatory knowledge, which can be both time-consuming and complex.
Chemical Compliance Monitor supports organisations with their regulatory burden and reduces the time, expense and resource required to understand the complex requirements and changes for the supply and use of chemical substances.
Legally required by chemical regulations, Safety Data Sheets (SDS) are designed to support the safe use and management of hazardous substances or products. It is therefore crucial that organisations ensure that anyone handling their chemicals have quick and easy access to up-to-date safety information. Missing or out-of-date information in the event of a chemical spill or leak may lead to a small incident being incorrectly handled, and people, environment, assets or reputations being damaged.
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) is the UK law that requires organisations to prevent or reduce employee exposure to substances that pose a risk to health through the sharing of information, provision of appropriate equipment and implementing adequate controls.
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy approach that holds producers accountable for the entire lifecycle of their products, particularly for the take-back, recycling, and final disposal of their products and its associated packaging. EPR regulations have been in place across Europe for 30 years, with many other countries around the world using the EU Packaging Directive as a template to implement their own set of EPR regulations.
Compliance with regulations such as REACH and CLP is generally seen as the responsibility of chemical companies placing products on the market. Companies that rebrand products may assume the responsibilities have been completed by their upstream suppliers, meaning they only need to copy the information on the labels and SDS from their upstream supplier and put their own name and contact details on it instead.
Increased awareness around issues of chemical persistence, including global plastic pollution and the presence of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) or ‘forever chemicals’ in the environment has triggered numerous global policy initiatives.
Most notably the new hazard class for persistent, mobile and toxic/very persistent very mobile (PMT/vPvM) substances, and introduced requirements to carry out persistence assessments, under the classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) regulation. More regulatory measures have created dual challenges for the global chemicals industry: first, the significantly higher demands for chemical biodegradation testing and persistence assessments; and second, the fact that these assessments are highly complex and full of challenges, with notable gaps in available guidance.
