From June 1, EU REACH regulations have been officially implemented. June 1 to November 30 is the pre-registration period of the REACH Regulation. This regulation puts forward the requirements for toxicity and ecological safety for tens of thousands of chemicals that are exported to Europe. It is currently the "green regulation" that is most concerned by the global chemical industry.
In order to respond to the REACH regulations and adapt to the green wave of global chemical products, China is stepping up efforts to formulate a series of relevant standards. At present, China has a number of test standards for the performance of specific chemicals, but most of them are standards for physical and chemical properties, technical performance, and application performance. It is urgent to update existing chemical toxicological standards. For chemical and ecological safety standards, It is a blank space.
According to reports, the formal implementation of the REACH Regulation will directly affect China’s annual trade of more than US$10 billion in chemical raw materials, and indirectly affect the export of hundreds of billions of US dollars in electromechanical, textile, light industry and toy products. Registering through REACH also requires a huge amount of money. Expensive testing costs make many small and medium-sized enterprises prohibitive. To this end, in recent years, AQSIQ has joined forces with related ministries and commissions to resolve the bottlenecks in responding to REACH regulations, and has conducted a series of fruitful work on the localization of chemical toxicity testing.
AQSIQ, as the lead department of the joint conference of China's Ministry of Technical Trade Measures, established the Sino-European Chemical Working Group with the European Union under the EU-China Industrial Product Safety and WTO/TBT Consultation and Cooperation Mechanism in 2006. Through communication, the EU principle agreed to help China, and gradually started the necessary procedures to eventually realize the mutual recognition of experimental data for chemical testing between China and the EU; and gradually assisted China with a chemical toxicity testing laboratory with corresponding capabilities. The test data was recognized by the European Union. And establish a GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) system.
Before the implementation of the GHS system (Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals) and REACH regulations, China has already carried out a large amount of work in formulating relevant standards. There are 122 standards that have been included in the planning and establishment of projects and are still missing the corresponding standards. item. The "Chemical Pesticides Environmental Safety Evaluation Test Guidelines", "Chemical Pesticide Test Methods" and "Chemical Toxicological Appraisal Technical Specifications" issued by China have provided a good basis for the establishment of a comprehensive system of chemical toxicity and ecological safety standards. After the completion of the new standards, China can meet the main technical standards system for implementing GHS and REACH.
At this stage, there is still a large gap between China's chemical toxicity and ecological safety technical standards system from the international level. In order to reduce the distance between the current status of China's chemical detection capabilities and GHS and REACH requirements, and to eliminate the difference between the testing needs of the two and China's chemical inspection standards system, completely change the current situation of lack of standards for chemical detection and severe shortage of laboratory testing capabilities. , China has developed REACH response standards and laboratory planning programs.
At present, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) has approved the establishment of 10 chemicals for implementing GHS and responding to REACH in Guangdong, Shanghai, Tianjin, Liaoning, Shandong, Jiangsu, Shenzhen, Hubei, Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau and the Chinese Academy of Science, based on relevant requirements and practical work requirements. Key Laboratory of Classification Identification and Evaluation. At the same time, China is establishing a GLP system, including GLP and GLP laboratories, in order to realize mutual recognition and sharing of data with the European Union, and to achieve the goal of localizing chemical toxicity testing data for imports and exports in China. At present, there are more than 700 GLP laboratories in 20 countries in the European Union, and China has not yet had a GLP laboratories. It is expected that the first GLP laboratory will be completed by the end of June. At that time, the localization of chemical toxicity testing in China will take the first step.