Endocrine Disruption in CLP: First insights into the new ECHA Guidance (FREE webinar)

The new ECHA Guidance on the Application of CLP Criteria is about to shake up the chemical industry with its heavy focus on endocrine disruption. Join Adam Jonáš (REGARTIS) and Aleš Bartl (Keller and Heckman LLP) sharing their first impressions of the guidance.

📅10th October 2024
🕛10:00 CEST
📌ZOOM platform

Key Discussion Points:

Content and scope of the new ECHA guidance
Understanding the endocrine disruption criteria
ECHA dealings with previous comments on guidance drafts
Practical advice for chemical producers and regulatory affairs teams

Meet Adam.

Involved in this field since 2007, our ecotoxicology and toxicology expert Adam Jonáš, PhD, started in academia performing experimental work to investigate the endocrine activity, acute toxicity, and neurotoxicity of various substances, mixtures, or environmental samples. He published several articles in leading toxicology and ecotoxicology journals. Later he had several regulatory roles in industry focused on biocides, plant protection, REACH, and CLP in the EU and other regions with proven track of successful registrations. He has experience with the endocrine disruptors assessment of plant protection and biocidal active substances under the current EFSA and ECHA guidance. He also helped design and study monitored numerous toxicological and ecotoxicological studies very often with very specific and difficult to be tested substances.

FAQs

How can I check my duties on Endocrine Disruptors?

There are already several regulations in force, which you have to comply depending on the product you are placing on the market. First, you might need to check the appropriate regulation – besides of duties you are already aware of, there can be also new obligations on endocrine disruptors problematic.
Once you have defined your role and obligations, it is also important to follow the changes in these regulations and the ECHA`s Endocrine Disruptors list, as the information there can be updated.

For example, you can refer to ECHA`s Endocrine Disruptors assessment list, where substances undergoing the ED assessment are published and follow the status of the evaluation process and possible outcomes. One of the outcomes is that a substance is considered not to have ED properties. Another possibility is that the substance is considered to have those, meaning that the new legal requirements for the substance will follow.

You can also contact us to obtain an evaluation of your product and the obligations applied to you. Please check the section “How can we help you?” or contact us to receive a tailored service precisely for you.

Why it is important to address the issue of endocrine disruptors?

Firstly, you must comply to the EU laws, which makes you obliged to comply with the current regulations. For example, there are already obligation on Endocrine disruptors defined by REACH, CLP, BRP, Regulation on Cosmetics and Plant Protection Product regulation.

Secondly, we believe it is very important to make our planet a safe place for all of us. As endocrine disruptors cannot be completely removed or avoided, it is still possible to reduce the exposure and risks by screening, testing, and raising awareness on Endocrine disruptors' presence, which will contribute to a safer alternative search/safer world around us.

Contact us today to obtain the evaluation of your substances under the relevant guidelines and/or the complete compliance strategy and services for your products!

What are endocrine disruptors?

Endocrine disruptors (EDs) are chemicals that can impact human and animal health, interfering with their hormonal system. There are numerous adverse effects caused by those chemicals, as our body systems and functions are dependent on the hormones. Endocrine disruptors can be natural or man-made and may affect, for example, the nervous system, normal growth, physical and mental development, metabolism, reproduction, and other functions of our body.

Where can endocrine disruptors be found?

We encounter endocrine disruptors in everyday products, such as food packaging, toys, cosmetics, and plant protection products. The list is almost endless and includes things all around us – soaps, hair spray and nail polish, nonstick pans, textile coatings, and furniture foams. Even in some foods, endocrine disruptors can be found, such as phytoestrogens, which are present in certain edible plants and most abundantly in soy.

What regulations on ED are already in force?

Since 1999, the European Commission has had a strategy on Endocrine disruptors, which is taken into account by EU legislation revisions.
Nowadays, the PPP, Plant Protection Products Regulation and Biocidal Products Regulation provide the establishment of scientific criteria for substances with ED properties identification. Additional regulatory provisions for endocrine disruptors are covered under REACH, Regulation on Cosmetics, and EU legislation on food contact materials.

The harmonization of hazard-based criteria for endocrine disruptors identification is provided in the 7th EAP (Environment Action Programme), which was adopted in 2013.

Last, but not least, new hazard classes for endocrine disruptors were introduced by the Delegated Regulation on Classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals.

How will our cooperation and its outcome look like?

Depending on your specific case, we will define the following steps and services we can provide to make your product compliant with all the obligations concerning it. All received outcomes will meet the requirements of the relevant guidelines and regulations.

Helping you assess products for endocrine disruption properties.

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