ECHA agrees first six substance evaluations including BPA

摘要

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)'s Member State Committee (MSC), has called for ECHA to request further information on six substances. This first batch of substance evaluations agreed by the MSC includes the controversial food contact chemical bisphenol A (BPA). At the meeting earlier this month, the MSC, which takes part in several REACH chemicals regulation processes such as evaluation and authorisation, agreed that ECHA should request more information on six substances. It said that the currently available information is insufficient to enable an assessment on the risks that they pose to human health and/or the environment. These particular six substances listed in the Community Rolling Action Plan (CoRAP) were evaluated by Germany, France, Denmark, the UK, Belgium and Spain.