Registration dossiers successfully submitted

Mer­ck, a sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny, announced that it has suc­cess­ful­ly sub­mit­ted a total of more than 1,000 reg­is­tra­tion dossiers under the Euro­pean chem­i­cals reg­u­la­tion REACH (Reg­is­tra­tion, Eval­u­a­tion, Autho­ri­sa­tion and Restric­tion of Chem­i­cals) by the end of the third and final reg­is­tra­tion dead­line of May 31, 2018. This process also includes sub­stances from Sig­ma-Aldrich, which were added to the exist­ing port­fo­lio of Mer­ck as a result of the largest acqui­si­tion in the company’s 350-year history.
“Through the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of the request­ed reg­is­tra­tions, Mer­ck presents itself as a reli­able and com­pe­tent part­ner to its cus­tomers and prod­ucts sold by Mer­ck com­ply with cur­rent require­ments under REACH,” said Robert Nass, Senior Vice Pres­i­dent, Qual­i­ty and Reg­u­la­to­ry Man­age­ment at the Life Sci­ence busi­ness sec­tor, and Andreas Kruse, Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent, Inte­grat­ed Sup­ply Chain at the Per­for­mance Mate­ri­als busi­ness sector.
The reg­is­tra­tions aim to ensure the safe use of chem­i­cals in the mar­ket­place. The basis for this is an exten­sive sub­stance dossier. This dossier con­tains data on physi­co-chem­i­cal, tox­i­co­log­i­cal and eco­tox­i­co­log­i­cal prop­er­ties, as well as on the use of a substance.
Even though the final reg­is­tra­tion dead­line for REACH has been suc­cess­ful­ly met, REACH activ­i­ties are not com­plet­ed with the end of this tran­si­tion peri­od. New sub­stances must be con­tin­u­ous­ly reg­is­tered and already exist­ing reg­is­tra­tion dossiers con­stant­ly updat­ed, or expand­ed by new data in the course of eval­u­a­tions. This con­tin­ues to ensure safe use of the sub­stances as well as sus­tain­able and respon­si­ble mar­ketabil­i­ty of the products.