REACH law comes into effect
June 13th, 2007 by 
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The controversial REACH law has come into effect this month. The long debated EU law aims to protect consumers and the environment from harmful and unsafe chemicals.
REACH - Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals - will demand that cosmetic manufacturers will have to ensure that over 30,000 chemicals have been tested and reviewed by the European Chemicals Agency (EChA). The EChA will ban those that pose a significant threat and ensure that cosmetic companies use alternative and safer ingredients in their products.
While we welcome the introduction of the new REACH law, the timeline to register chemicals is very long - 11 years and many loopholes exist. For example, if a shampoo or moisturiser was manufactured outside the EU - they are not regulated under the REACH law as it only applies to products made in the EU.
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June 18th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
REACH has also attracted concern because of the potential for a very significant increase in animal testing under the proposal.[8]
Animal tests on vertebrates are allowed only once per one substance, and if a company pays for these tests, then it must sell the rights to the results for a “reasonable” price. The price is not defined. Doing the tests again is not allowed, therefore the original registrar gets a monopoly on that substance if they set the price too high.
On June 8, 2006 the proposal came under criticism from a group of nations including the United States, India and Brazil claiming that the bill would hamper global trade.[9]
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