to that of automotive or industrial applications. The cost to generate the required data will be extreme. In any case the cost of the lubricant will dramatically increase, but more likely a large number of additives will no longer be available for use when all the data files have to be submitted. This could result in technically underperforming lubricants causing increased cost for the foodstuff producers and increased maintenance cost or higher lube change intervals.
The foodstuff producers will come to the lubricant supplier demanding evidence of the toxicology of the components in the lubricant, or want these removed from the formulation. To what extent can the lubricants industry provide these answers? Or in how far are we willing to provide these answers because it is simply not commercially viable?
A combined effort of the lubricant industry with the food stuff producers and the legislators will be required if lubricants are to be exempted. We should urgently consider a cooperating with the food industry by alerting them to the potential risk concerning the
future availability of lubricants for food production. The solution is not a simple move from mineral oil-based products to polyalphaolefin (PAO) or A.N. other. Additives crucial for the effective functioning of products are possibly the more difficult hurdle. The detection methods already currently available and under development will show NIAS in food at very low levels. Nevertheless, this will not only trigger questions, but will also demand a review of the safety data or force the industry to provide different products in a small but important market segment.
It is time to look outside our industry and become aware what is happening in the wider legislative field, outside REACH, and realise that in Asian markets a similar development is taking place. Whether NIAS will decide the future of H1 lubricants is something only the future will tell.
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