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How REACH Can Impact Manufacturers and Supply Chains
Date: Monday, May 19, 2008
Time:
6:00 pm
- 7:00 pm
Event Address: 41-17 Main Street Flushing, NY 11355
Event Venue: Flushing Community Library
Contact Name: Joel Pekay
Contact Phone: (630) 623-2105
Contact Email: joel.pekay@intertek.com
Event URL: http://www.Intertek-etlsemko.com/wtwregister
Fee: Free but seating is limited
Intertek, the leading provider of quality and safety solutions serving a wide range of industries around the world, will present an overview the European Union?s REACH legislation and impact on manufacturers and supply chains.
The European Union?s new regulations for the safe use of chemicals ? the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals, or REACH ? entered into force in June 2007. REACH is based on the idea that the industry itself is best placed to ensure that the chemicals it manufactures and puts on the market in the EU do not adversely affect human health or the environment. This means that the industry (including manufacturers) is required to have certain knowledge of the properties of its products and manage potential risks.
Companies have a six-month window from 1st June to 1st December 2008 to pre-register chemical substances, and a series of deadlines up to 2018 to fully register and to notify what substances of very high concern are included in finished articles.
As early as December 2008 ? manufacturers may be required to provide information on substances of very high concern in their products. Companies representing the end of the supply chain are highly concerned about a published list of substances regarded as very dangerous. And it would be an area of significant concern if branded products are found to contain dangerous substances.
Join Dr. Ruud Overbeek, Global Director of Restricted Hazardous Substances, for a 1 hour overview of the impact of REACH on manufacturers and their supply chains.
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