EU Policy Requires New Regulations To Ban All Perfluorooctanoic Acids

Recently, the European Commission issued a notice on technical trade measures to amend the annex XVII of the REACH code.

In addition, we must do a good job in quality control before exporting, and entrust qualified testing bodies to conduct PFOA and related substances testing to ensure product quality and effectively prevent subsequent risks.

According to the draft, the EU will totally prohibit the production and listing of PFOA and its salts. The content of PFOA and its salts in any substance, mixture or article should not exceed 25 micrograms / kg (ppb), and the content of PFOA related substances should not exceed 1000ppb.

The new rules will be closed in December 2016 and are expected to take effect in the first half of 2017. Due to the extensive application of perfluorooctanoic acid in textile and chemical industries, the implementation of the new regulation will have an impact on the export industry of China's textile and clothing, paper products, leather products, plastic products and even electronic and electrical products.

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Strengthening the control of the use of toxic and harmful chemicals has become the consensus of textile and garment industries.

In recent years, the European Union and the United States have used chemicals such as perfluorinated compounds, nonylphenol and other chemicals.

Increasingly stringent, enterprises need to enhance risk awareness, early layout, speed up pformation and upgrading.

The European Union is an important overseas market for consumer goods such as textiles and garments. With the continuous tightening of chemicals such as nonylphenol and perfluorooctanoic acid in developed countries such as Europe and the United States, enterprises will be forced to upgrade equipment and replace additives.

At the same time, in addition to the detection of single PFOA, after the implementation of the new regulations, a large number of products still need to detect PFOA related substances. The cost of testing will increase significantly. Under the background of overall low profit, the industrial pressure is bound to increase constantly, and enough attention should be paid to it.

The inspection and Quarantine Department reminded the relevant export enterprises to pay close attention to Europe and America.

Measures, especially REACH regulations, control and control harmful chemicals in consumer goods. Enterprises need to prepare ahead of schedule. At the same time, the product quality management system is actively improved. Due to the wide application of PFOA and other substances, the risk of apoplexy in various chemical auxiliaries and plastics, textile and other materials parts is bigger. Enterprises need to strengthen risk control of raw materials, and improve production equipment and processing technology, so as to avoid products such as perfluorooctanoic acid pollution and other hidden dangers.