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🚀 Released on 5th February 2021

The following 18 minute video explains what types of materials and parts can contain these new REACH Candidate List substances and how to update your Regulatory Compliance Declarations (RCDs) for these substances.

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New REACH Candidate List Substances

On 25 June 2020 the European Chemicals Agency added four new substances to the REACH Candidate List (http://echa.europa.eu/web/guest/candidate-list-table). Three of these substances are not normally found in concentrations > 0.1% w/w in materials and parts in supplied articles:

• butyl 4-hydroxybenzoate
• 2-methylimidazole
• 1-vinylimidazole

BOMcheck has automatically updated your RCDs for these three new substances.

The following REACH Candidate List substance can be found in concentrations > 0.1% w/w in materials and parts in supplied articles:

Substance	Likely to be found in supplied articles?
Dibutylbis(pentane-2,4-dionato-O,O')tin [CAS: 22673-19-4]	Yes - substance has similar properties to Dibutyltin dichloride (DBTC) and can be added to PVC plastic to make it more stable to heating and to protect against degradation from sunlight. DBTP can also be used as a catalyst for the production of plastics including polyurethanes and certain silicones, and for room temperature vulcanisation (RTV) silicone rubber systems.

Updating Declarations

IF YOU HAVE CREATED FULL MATERIALS DECLARATIONS (FMDs) ON BOMcheck THEN YOU WILL NOT NEED TO TAKE ANY ACTION. RCDs which are generated from your FMDs have been updated automatically for these new substances. The Approval Date for these RCDs has been set to 25 June 2020. The Approval Date for your FMDs remains the same.