News Archive

6 july 2018

Restrictions on CMRs in textiles

EU Member States vote for reducing the use of hazardous chemicals in garment and footwear

The European Union approved a series of important usage restrictions for 33 substances classified as CMR in textiles, clothing and footwear. CMRs are carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic substances for reproduction used in production processes or to attribute specific properties to the product, such as to prevent shrinkage or make fabric crease-resistant.


Consumers can be exposed to these hazardous substances through skin contact, inhalation or unintentional ingestion of dust released from the materials. A risk that obviously becomes higher in the case of children's clothing.

CMRs will be included in Annex XVII of REACH, Appendix 12. The newrestrictions will affect articles marketed in the European Union regardless of where they were produced. Companies have two years to adapt strarting from the publication of the provision on the Official Journal of the European Union.

Condividi    

Brachi Process Innovation:
Project co-financed under the POR FESR Toscana 2014-2020

DOWNLOAD THE POSTER
BTS process innovation - BTS process innovation 2.0 - Brachi innovazione di processo

loghi porcreo