Product Safety and Consumer Well-being
Our team of experts
The regulatory team is comprised of a global network of highly effective individuals with a wide variety of expertise:
- Four dedicated experts in toxicology
- Four experts in global food contact regulations
- Four experts on global biocide regulations
- 10 dedicated experts in global chemical compliance and regulatory affairs
- Two dedicated experts in SDS and regulatory systems
In addition to supporting our core business units, many of our corporate regulatory team members work collaboratively with a wide range of external industry bodies and research groups, helping to enhance and improve the safety of our products and the global regulations that govern their use. Our active participation in research groups, trade associations and committees allows for a mutual exchange of information, befitting Innospec, our counterparts and customers.
We are proud to work with:
- ACC (American Chemistry Council)
- ATC (Technical Committee of Petroleum Additive Manufacturers in Europe)
- AFSA (Animal Free Safety Assessment Collaboration)
- BCA (British Chemicals Association)
- CEFIC (European Chemical Industry Council)
- CESIO (European Committee of Organic Surfactants and their Intermediates)
- CIA (UK’s Chemical Industries Association)
- CTPA (Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association)
- EFfCI (European Federation for Cosmetic Ingredient Manufacturers)
- EOSCA (European Oilfield Specialty Chemicals Association)
- ERASM (Environmental and Health Risk Assessment Management of Surfactants)
- ICCS (International Collaboration on Cosmetics Safety)
Global Chemical Regulations
Key actions included:
- Public consultations and workshops on the outlined concepts and proposals
- A proposal for the revision of the REACH Regulation
- A roadmap setting for EU REACH restrictions and recommendations on the European assessment framework for ‘Safe and Sustainable by Design’
On 31st March 2023 the European Commission published a Delegated Act on the Classification and Labelling of chemicals, which included new hazard classed for chemicals, for example which have endocrine disrupting (ED) properties.
Our team of experts actively monitors and evaluates regulatory developments as part of our proactive approach to address how potential changes in legislation impact on our products and how our customers use them.
Staying Compliant with REACH
- EU REACH
- UK REACH
- Turkish and Korean REACH
It is also a legal requirement to pro-actively review and update registration dossiers with the latest information and assess any impact this has on workers, consumers, and environmental safety. We continue with our ongoing commitment as a signatory member company to the CEFIC Dossier Improvement Plan and remain on schedule to complete reviews and resubmissions of all registration dossiers by the 2026 target date and complete all our obligations under the Plan.
This change will coincide with an alternative registration model (ATR), proposed in response to stakeholder concerns regarding the cost of acquiring and submitting the required data to complete ‘grandfathered’ registrations. The model will aim to reduce costs to businesses of this transition, while also ensuring high levels of human health and environmental protection remain.
We have successfully completed the initial ‘grandfathering’ of our existing EU REACH registrations into UK REACH and any necessary downstream user import notifications (DUINs) to ensure our products remain compliant on the UK market. We also submit “New Registration, Existing Substance (NRES)” and new substance registrations under UK REACH when required. We await the outcome of the ATR proposals before making necessary preparations to complete any data submission requirements for the UK registration process of our “grandfathered”, DUIN and NRES substances.
Although Turkey extended their registration deadlines late in 2023, thus removing the requirement for all substances to be registered by the end of 2023, our regulatory team completed the registration of 20 substances in 2023 falling under KKDIK. Work to advance further registrations under KKDIK will now progress in line with the revised deadlines.
The Regulatory Team are also undertaking registration of all applicable substances falling under the Korean REACH Program (K-REACH) with the next deadline being for the registration of substances over 100 tpa by the end of 2024.
Product Stewardship
Our regulatory team are involved in the early stages of all new product research and development to provide support from first concept. We are committed to minimizing environmental impact through all stages of our product development.
Advanced software to ensure product safety
Our expert software system Intelligent Authoring® supplied by Sphera® supports our regulatory function underpinning our product stewardship by:
- Facilitating the publishing of safety data sheets (SDS) in over 40 languages and generates labels for 4,500+ products
- Cross-checking global chemical inventory compliance, such as the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) in the US
- Holding the physical chemical (eco) toxicology, environmental-fate and hazard classification data for over 20,000 individual substances that we continually use and/or monitor
The database enables us to classify our products correctly for human and environmental health and also provides the correct handling and use advice.
Challenging animal testing
Find out about our work to advance alternatives to animal testing whilst ensuring product safety
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