Step 2. Identify hazardous chemicals

In Step 2, you identify which chemicals to phase out using the chemical content information you obtained in Step 1. You can do this through a search of chemical legislation and other tools using a chemical’s:

• Name
• Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) number, an international identification number for chemicals.
• EC number, an identification number for chemicals on the European market

Learn more about chemicals to be phased out

Use the chemicals legislation

The first thing you should do is to check whether one or more of the chemicals in your goods are classified as hazardous or very hazardous in the chemicals legislation therefore are subject to information, restriction or authorisation obligations.

 Learn more about finding hazardous chemicals in the legislation

Staying ahead of the legislation

There are also a number of substitution tools that you can use, not only for substances that are already regulated, but also for substances that may be subject to information, restriction or authorisation requirements in the future. Use these to stay ahead of the legislation!

Learn more about tools to identify hazardous substances

Chemical analyses

To verify the information you have received from your suppliers, you can order a chemical analysis, which can also be useful in cases where you have not received information on a particular content. However, you will need to know in advance which chemicals you want analysed, for example if you want to make sure that your goods/materials do not contain phthalates or a certain type of flame retardant.

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