New EU Limit for PCP Under POP Recast Regulation
POP Recast Regulation updated with limit for PCP, its salts and esters.
- (1888PressRelease) March 11, 2021 - The European Union (EU) has published a new limit of no more than 5 mg/kg for pentachlorophenol (PCP), its salts and esters under the POP Recast Regulation. The limit applies to substances, mixtures and articles.
Published on February 23, 2021, the new limit is contained in Regulation (EU) 2021/277. The changes have been made under the ‘Specific exemption on intermediate use or other specification’ in Part A to Annex I of the POP Recast Regulation.
Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 on persistent organic pollutants – ‘the POP Recast Regulation’ – was published in 2019. The addition of PCP, its salts and esters, is the latest amendment, which have previously included
• Addition of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related compounds
• Revising point 4 under ‘Specific exemption on intermediate use or other specification’ for perfluorootance sulfonic acid and its derivatives (PFOS)
• Addition of dicofol
• Amending several entries under ‘Specific exemption on intermediate use or other specification’ for PFOA, its salts and PFOA-related compounds
PCP and its salts and esters were previously listed in Annex I to the legislation without an Unintentional Trace Contaminant (UTC) limit value. Since the original publishing of the regulation, it has been determined that these substances are an impurity in some articles – e.g., imported textiles and recovered wood chips for the manufacture of wood panels.
The amendment will come into effect on March 15, 2021 (twenty days after its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union).
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