Coating & Laminating BCF calls for Poison Centre legislation delay
The British Coatings Federation (BCF) calls for delay and rethink on the potentially crippling impact of new Poison Centre regulations on the coatings and inks sector
A three hundred fold increase in the number of notifications to poison centres is predicted for the paints, coatings and ink sector - an incredible 44.5 million notifications, with an estimated bill of €9 billion for the sector across the EU, that would bankrupt the industry. This for a sector that only turns over €40 billion, according to the Wood report, commissioned by the department for economic growth (DG GROW) in the European Commission. “We are of course in favour of having clear
information available for doctors to be able to treat patients who may have accidently swallowed one of our member’s products, but there has to be a simpler and more cost- effective way,” says Wayne Smith, BCF’s director of regulatory affairs. The key issue here is the requirement for
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he BCF has written to the UK’s Health and Safety Executive highlighting the major concerns
for the coatings and printing ink industries, following publication of an independent study of new EU Poison Centre legislation that will put the coatings and printing ink sector out of business, if not fundamentally altered. BCF CEO, Tom Bowtell, comments “The recent workability study, commissioned by
the EU itself, has shown the hugely disproportionate, and crippling cost of implementing the new Poison Centre regulation, set to come into force on January 1st next year.” A poison centre is another name for a helpline for medical professionals, to find out information about the chemical makeup of products, and a EU wide database is being planned to store this information for emergency health response.
every paint or formula to have a unique identifier. This is quite ridiculous, given the similar chemical makeup of the majority of formulas in each product range. “This needs sorting out, and the regulation must be delayed until pragmatic solutions are agreed” Bowtell continues. The BCF, along with other coatings and ink associations across Europe, are writing to their authorities to highlight the problem. “We hope that common sense will
prevail, and the new legislation delayed until more practical solutions are found” Bowtell concludes.
coatings.org.uk
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May 2019
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