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The European Commission has approved the carcinogenicity classification of titanium dioxide dust

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The European Commission approved the 14th technical adaptation of the CLP Regulation. It includes the classification of titanium dioxide as a Category 2 inhalation carcinogen. The substance is carcinogenic when inhaled in powders with a concentration greater than 1% and a particle size of titanium dioxide ≤ 10 μm.

The substance will then require a warning label with H351 warning phrase and a health warning pictogram. For mixtures a phrase EUH211 or EUH212 will be required. If approved by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers, the Regulation is expected to be published in early 2020 and will enter into force 18 months after its publication. The change will have a major impact on the industry, as titanium dioxide is used extensively in for example paints, colours, plastics, paper and coatings, including those used in consumer products.

The European Parliament and the Council will have two months to raise any objection to the publication of the Regulation. If the Regulation proceeds without objection, the amendments to Annex VI to CLP will enter into force within 18 months of the publication of the Regulation.

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The 12th adaptation to technical progress of the CLP

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CLP regulation change (EU) 2019/521

The 12. adaptation to technical progress (ATP) of the CLP Regulation adopts the sixth and seventh revised editions of the GHS. The sixth and seventh revised editions of the GHS result from changes adopted in 2014 and 2016 respectively by the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals. These changes introduce a new hazard class for desensitised explosives. Also a new hazard category, pyrophoric gases, within the hazard class flammable gases is introduced to the CLP regulation.

Other changes in the CLP regulation include adaptations to; the criteria for substances and mixtures which in contact with water emit flammable gases, the generic cut-off values; the general provisions to classify aerosol forms of mixtures; and the detail of the definitions and classification criteria as appropriate for the hazard classes explosives, flammable gases, flammable liquids, flammable solids, acute toxicity, skin corrosion/irritation, serious eye damage/eye irritation, respiratory and skin sensitisation, germ cell mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, reproductive toxicity, specific target organ toxicity and aspiration hazard. In addition, amendments introduce some hazard and precautionary statements.

To ensure that suppliers of substances and mixtures have time to adapt to the new classification, labelling and packaging provisions, this CLP regulation will be applied starting from the 17th of October 2020. However, suppliers can apply the new provisions on a voluntary basis already before the date of application.

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