Substitute PFAS and nanotubes now, says chemicals NGO

ChemSec today added a range of new chemicals to its Substitute It Now (SIN) List, in the first major update to the list for five years. 

Although the persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT) classification is not recognised under REACH, Germany’s federal and environment agency UBA has proposed chemicals with these properties should be considered substances of very high concern (SVHCs). Both the regulator and ChemSec argue that PMT substances are of ‘equivalent concern’ to those classified as carcinogenic, reprotoxic or bioaccumulative.