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Toxic Chemicals
in advance of importing a product. The appropriate EU authority will put this information into an electronic database, assign a registration number and then screen the
registered substances for properties raising particular concern.
Registration information is to include the following:
1. Data/information on the identity and properties of the substance, including
data on toxicological and ecotoxicological properties
2. Intended uses, estimated human and environmental exposure
3. Production quantity envisaged
4. Proposal for the classification and labeling of the substance
5. Safety Data Sheet
6. Preliminary risk assessment covering the intended uses
7. Proposed risk management measures
TOXICS RELEASE INVENTORY
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a U.S. program (discussed further in Chapter 3)
that requires regulated entities to report on their environmental releases of approximately 650 chemicals. The TRI includes those chemicals that are considered to be the
most highly toxic; however, it also includes chemicals that are not necessarily toxic.
This regulation does not directly require that companies report the composition
of their products to the public, but because they are required to keep track of each
of these chemicals in the materials that they purchase, the program has ended up
placing a requirement for suppliers of materials to report the concentrations of these
chemicals (i.e., composition reporting) in their products to those individual companies required to report on their releases.
Therefore, although in essence the TRI has become an “internal company”
requirement for tracking of the chemical composition of chemicals used in their
products , including those chemicals that are highly toxic, the actual emphasis of
the TRI program to date, as far as public reporting goes, has only been on the total
pounds of releases of these chemicals and not on specific product composition reporting and not based on the relative toxic ranking of the chemical releases reported.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Commission of the European Communities. 2001. White Paper: Strategy for a Future Chemicals
Policy. Brussels, BE.
Commission of the European Communities. 2003. Commission Staff Working Paper: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council Concerning REACH—Extended
Impact Assessment. Brussels, BE.
Council of the European Union. 2006. EU Common Ground on REACH.
Council of the European Union. 2006. The REACH Proposal Process Description.
Council of the European Union. 2006. Questions and Answers on REACH.
Prop 65 Clearinghouse. 2007. The Reports. http://www.prop65clearinghouse.com/ (accessed
November 14, 2006).
Toxic Chemicals
in advance of importing a product. The appropriate EU authority will put this information into an electronic database, assign a registration number and then screen the
registered substances for properties raising particular concern.
Registration information is to include the following:
1. Data/information on the identity and properties of the substance, including
data on toxicological and ecotoxicological properties
2. Intended uses, estimated human and environmental exposure
3. Production quantity envisaged
4. Proposal for the classification and labeling of the substance
5. Safety Data Sheet
6. Preliminary risk assessment covering the intended uses
7. Proposed risk management measures
TOXICS RELEASE INVENTORY
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a U.S. program (discussed further in Chapter 3)
that requires regulated entities to report on their environmental releases of approximately 650 chemicals. The TRI includes those chemicals that are considered to be the
most highly toxic; however, it also includes chemicals that are not necessarily toxic.
This regulation does not directly require that companies report the composition
of their products to the public, but because they are required to keep track of each
of these chemicals in the materials that they purchase, the program has ended up
placing a requirement for suppliers of materials to report the concentrations of these
chemicals (i.e., composition reporting) in their products to those individual companies required to report on their releases.
Therefore, although in essence the TRI has become an “internal company”
requirement for tracking of the chemical composition of chemicals used in their
products , including those chemicals that are highly toxic, the actual emphasis of
the TRI program to date, as far as public reporting goes, has only been on the total
pounds of releases of these chemicals and not on specific product composition reporting and not based on the relative toxic ranking of the chemical releases reported.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Commission of the European Communities. 2001. White Paper: Strategy for a Future Chemicals
Policy. Brussels, BE.
Commission of the European Communities. 2003. Commission Staff Working Paper: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council Concerning REACH—Extended
Impact Assessment. Brussels, BE.
Council of the European Union. 2006. EU Common Ground on REACH.
Council of the European Union. 2006. The REACH Proposal Process Description.
Council of the European Union. 2006. Questions and Answers on REACH.
Prop 65 Clearinghouse. 2007. The Reports. http://www.prop65clearinghouse.com/ (accessed
November 14, 2006).