https://echa.europa.eu/hot-topics/skin-sensitising-chemicals
EU : ECHA LAUNCHED SECOND PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON RESTRICTION ON SKIN SENSITISING SUBSTANCES
JUNE 2020 – RELEVANT FOR: ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS, HARDLINES, SOFTLINES, CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS
The following articles made exclusively or partly of textiles, leather, hides and furs:
Clothing and related accessories;
Textile, leather, fur, hide and synthetic leather articles other than clothing which come into contact with the human skin under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use to an extent similar to clothing;
Disposable sanitary towels, napkins, tissues and nappies;
Footwear
Proposed limit
Disperse dyes: Not detected
Chromium VI: < 1 mg/kg (extractable, leather, fur and hide: < 3 mg/kg of total dry weight);
Formaldehyde: < 30 mg/kg;- 1,4 paraphenylene diamine: < 250 mg/kg in textiles, < 50 mg/kg in leather, hides and fur;
Nickel compounds: < 125 mg/kg in textiles; < 25 mg/kg in leather, hides and fur (extractable);
Cobalt compounds: < 70 mg/kg in textiles; < 15 mg/kg in leather, hides and fur (extractable);
Other compounds: < 130 mg/kg in textiles; < 30 mg/kg in leather, hides and fur
Proposed exemption
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) within the scope of Regulation (EU) 2016/425;
Medical devices within the scope of Regulation (EU) 2017/745;
Substances that are used as active ingredients in biocidal products within the
scope of Regulation (EU) 528/2012;
The second-hand articles which were in end-use before 31 January 2023.
Proposed transitional period
36 months
The following articles made exclusively or partly of textiles, leather, hides and furs:
Clothing and related accessories;
Textile, leather, fur, hide and synthetic leather articles other than clothing which come into contact with the human skin under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use to an extent similar to clothing;
Disposable sanitary towels, napkins, tissues and nappies;
Footwear
Proposed limit
Disperse dyes: Not detected
Chromium VI: < 1 mg/kg (extractable, leather, fur and hide: < 3 mg/kg of total dry weight);
Formaldehyde: < 30 mg/kg;- 1,4 paraphenylene diamine: < 250 mg/kg in textiles, < 50 mg/kg in leather, hides and fur;
Nickel compounds: < 125 mg/kg in textiles; < 25 mg/kg in leather, hides and fur (extractable);
Cobalt compounds: < 70 mg/kg in textiles; < 15 mg/kg in leather, hides and fur (extractable);
Other compounds: < 130 mg/kg in textiles; < 30 mg/kg in leather, hides and fur
Proposed exemption
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) within the scope of Regulation (EU) 2016/425;
Medical devices within the scope of Regulation (EU) 2017/745;
Substances that are used as active ingredients in biocidal products within the
scope of Regulation (EU) 528/2012;
The second-hand articles which were in end-use before 31 January 2023.
Proposed transitional period
36 months
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