ECHA Releases Product Database on Hazardous Chemicals

Written By: Atanu Das on Friday, September 17, 2021

The database contains over 4 million entries submitted by 6,000+ companies in the EU. In it, users can search the data by product name, category, and type of material or chemical name. The goal of access to this data is to allow consumers to choose less hazardous chemicals and understanding how to safely handle them. 

The Agency has a great video explaining how to use the search features: 

Additionally, ECHA provides the following background on the collision of this data.

"Companies supplying articles that contain substances of very high concern, SVHCs, on the REACH Candidate List have to notify these to ECHA. The requirement concerns articles on the EU market that contain more than 0.1 % weight by weight of SVHCs. The obligation came into force on 5 January 2021 and is based on the EU Waste Framework Directive as revised in 2018.

The notifications are stored in the Substances of Concern in Products (SCIP) database, which ensures that the information is publicly available throughout the whole lifecycle of products and materials, including the waste stage."