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Case Study on Printed Matter in Denmark

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Global Risk-Based Management of Chemical Additives I

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC,volume 18))

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The implementation of the EU REACH regulation will most probably promote substitution within sectors handling a lot of different chemicals such as the printing industry. With the aim of being at the cutting edge of this development, the Danish printing industry started up a substitution project in 2006. A major part of the work has been mapping the presence of chemicals, which are the potential candidates for substitution (e.g., PBT, CMR, vPvB, EDS). The mapping comprises a combination of a literature study and an investigation of the actual (2007) presence of candidate substances at 15 Danish printing houses including the examination of almost 900 MSDSs (i.e., products). Furthermore, a focused search in the Danish Product Register has been included. More than 200 of the mapped substances are candidates for substitution according to Danish legislation (List of Undesirable Substances) and about 60 of these substances fulfill one or more of the criteria (e.g., CMR, EDS) for the REACH Annex XIV candidate list (Authorisation List). This case study presents the results of the mapping of chemical substitution candidates some of which may be relevant regarding accumulation of additives/impurities in globally recycled paper.

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Abbreviations

AT:

Danish Working Environment Authority

CMR:

Carcinogenic, mutagenic, reprotoxic

DTU:

Technical University of Denmark

ECHA:

European Chemicals Agency

EDS:

Endocrine disrupting substances

EFL:

Effect list

EPA:

Environmental Protection Agency

EU:

European Union

IARC:

International Agency for Research on Cancer

IPU:

Institute for Product Development

LOFS:

List of hazardous substances

LOUS:

List of undesirable substances

MSDS:

Material safety data sheets

NOEC:

No observed effect concentration

PBT:

Persistent, bioaccumulating and toxic

POP:

Persistent organic pollutants

QSAR:

Quantitative structure-activity relationship

REACH:

Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals

Rxx:

Risk phrases (e.g., R45, R50/53)

SVHC:

Substances of very high concern

vPvB:

very Persistent, very Bioaccumulating

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This study was financed by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency supplemented by in-kind contributions from the industry partners.

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  1. Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Produktionstorvet, Building 424, 2800, Lyngby, Denmark

    Henrik Fred Larsen

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    Bernd Bilitewski

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Larsen, H.F. (2011). Case Study on Printed Matter in Denmark. In: Bilitewski, B., Darbra, R., Barceló, D. (eds) Global Risk-Based Management of Chemical Additives I. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry(), vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2011_106

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