Assessing the safety of plastic additives

Care for people and planet

Cefic participated in ECHA’s Plastic additives initiative, which helped collect information on more than 400 additives in plastics, mapping their use and exposure information. The work included the development of a method for comparing the release potential of different additives. Downstream users can now use the method to determine which REACH dossiers they should update as highest priority and to identify where safe use information communicated down the supply chain needs to be further improved.

Associated SDG target

Achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle