On 30 January 2024, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced the launch of its new chemicals database. To date, it contains information from more than 100,000 REACH registration dossiers, and will shortly be supplemented by other data (CLP, regulatory lists…).
It is called ECHA CHEM, and is the Agency’s new tool for publishing information on chemical substances.
It brings together the information provided by industry in its registration dossiers and the data generated by the EU’s regulatory processes.
In its first version, it makes available information from the more than 100,000 REACH registration dossiers that companies have submitted to ECHA. Later this year, the Agency says, it will be supplemented by the redesigned CLH inventory, followed by a first set of regulatory lists.
ECHA CHEM is now available online, as is the information search platform on chemicals launched in 2016, which contains more than 360,000 substances.
Sources
• ECHA launches new chemicals database, ECHA Weekly, 31 January 2024
• ECHA launches new chemicals database, ECHA/NR/24/02, ECHA, All news, 30 January 2024
