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Echa Investigates Possible Restriction PVC Additives

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has begun an investigation into polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and its additives to assess risks to human health and the environment. ECHA aims to complete a report by May 2023 covering the socio-economic impacts of possible restrictions on PVC and alternatives. The European Commission requested the investigation due to concerns that replacements for restricted PVC additives may also pose risks. ECHA will focus on additives used as plasticizers and flame retardants as well as the risks of recycled PVC and additive leaching.

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Echa Investigates Possible Restriction PVC Additives

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has begun an investigation into polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and its additives to assess risks to human health and the environment. ECHA aims to complete a report by May 2023 covering the socio-economic impacts of possible restrictions on PVC and alternatives. The European Commission requested the investigation due to concerns that replacements for restricted PVC additives may also pose risks. ECHA will focus on additives used as plasticizers and flame retardants as well as the risks of recycled PVC and additive leaching.

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ECHA investigates ‘possible


restriction’ of PVC and additives
Simon Pickstone 25 Aug 2022

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has begun work to


assess the risks to human health and the environment of one
of the most widely used plastics and its additives, following a
request of the Commission.

The Helsinki-based regulator said this week that it aimed to complete an


investigation report into polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and its additives by May
next year, covering “the socio-economic impact of a possible restriction and
the need for a European-Union-wide action beyond and [sic] measures
already in place”.

The European Commission formally tasked ECHA with preparing a report in


May. While many PVC additives have already been restricted in the EU,
“there are growing concerns that the alternative substances used to replace
the restricted additives, particularly plasticisers and flame retardants, may
themselves pose risks”, said officials from the Commission’s environment
and internal market directorate-generals (DG ENVI and DG GROW) in their
request for an investigation.

“More information is needed to better understand whether the risk, stemming


from PVC additives and PVC itself, is significant, and whether there are
adequate control measures in place,” they said.

The investigation should cover the risks associated with recycled PVC, how
and under what conditions additives might leach from PVC, and the
suitability of alternatives, the Commission said. Additives used as
plasticisers and flame retardants should be the agency’s top priority, followed
by other additives and finally by PVC itself, it added.

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The Commission included all forms of PVC in its ‘restrictions roadmap’,


published in April, which sets out a ‘rolling list’ of substances that will form
the basis for multi-annual planning of assessments and restrictions under the
REACH regime.

Limits for hazardous substances in recycled PVC have been a longstanding


controversy in Brussels. In 2020, MEPs vetoed a Commission proposal that
would have allowed recycled PVC products to be exempt from a ban on
lead.

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Follow-up: ECHA restrictions activity table, Commission letter

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