New update of Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) for consumer products

On 8 July 2021, the ECHA (European Chemicals Agency) has released the new Candidate List of SVHC covering 8 new substances for them being toxic for reproduction, carcinogenic, respiratory sensitizers or endocrine disruptors.

Newly regulated substances relating to general consumer products such as textile, leather and plastic products are summarised below:

Substance name	EC number	CAS number	Reason for inclusion	Examples of use(s)
2,2-bis(bromomethyl)propane1,3-diol (BMP); 2,2-dimethylpropan-1-ol, tribromo derivative/3-bromo-2,2-bis(bromomethyl)-1-propanol (TBNPA); 2,3-dibromo-1-propanol (2,3-DBPA)	221-967-7; 253-057-0; 202-480-9	3296-90-0; 36483-57-5; 1522-92-5; 96-13-9	Carcinogenic (Article 57 (a))	BMP: manufacture of polymer resins and in one component foam (OCPF) application. TBNPA: polymer production manufacture of plastics products, including compounding and conversion and as an intermediate. DBPA: registered as an intermediate.
Glutaral	203-856-5	111-30-8	Respiratory sensitising properties (Article 57(f) - human health)	Biocides, leather tanning, x-ray film processing, cosmetics.
Medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCP) UVCB substances consisting of more than or equal to 80% linear chloroalkanes with carbon chain lengths within the range from C14 to C17	-	-	PBT (Article 57 (d)) vPvB (Article 57 (e))	Flame retardants, plasticising additives in plastics, sealants, rubber and textiles

You can visit the link to ECHA website to see the full announcement on this.

With the addition of 8 new substances, the current list of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) now contains 219 substances.

You are reminded that starting from 5 January 2021, all suppliers of articles being placed to the EU market are required to notify these articles in ECHA’s SCIP Database if the articles contains substances from Candidate List of concentration more than 0.1% weight by weight.

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