2024 & 2025 Regulatory Developments on Hazardous Substances in Products in the EU, Switzerland and the UK
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2024 & 2025 Regulatory Developments on Hazardous Substances in Products – Whitepaper Overview:
This whitepaper provides a recap of 2024 proposed, amended, and enacted regulations on restricted substances impacting articles produced or placed into the EU, Switzerland, and the UK market, alongside some early 2025 developments. This includes regulatory developments on hazardous substances in products such as textiles, electrical and electronic equipment, medical devices, food contact articles, cosmetics, and more.
This Whitepaper Covers:
- Updates to REACH Annex XVII, SVHC, and other harmful substances such as POPs and F-gases
- Update and next steps on EU PFAS restrictions proposal
- Updates to the Swiss chemicals regulations
- Insights on UK REACH developments
*This whitepaper was originally published on 6th November, 2024. Further regulatory developments may have occurred after publication. To keep up-to-date with the latest compliance news, sign up to our newsletter.
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Dieudonné Ymedji
Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist
Global chemical regulatory compliance with expertise in chemicals management, chemicals in products, conflict minerals, GHS, nanotechnology, and PFAS.
