REACH: Looking Beyond Pre-registration

In the article "REACH: Looking Beyond Pre-registration," published in the August 2009 issue of Chemical Engineering, Nancy Russotto discusses the issues facing many companies that have not planned beyond the preregistration stage in the process. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the next steps to ensure compliance under REACH are significantly more complex and require not only technical skills, but also substantial legal advice, supply chain management, and adjustments in logistics. Compliance can also engender financial consequences that need to be carefully managed. The article sets out the key steps that every company must understand, suggests pitfalls to be avoided, and raises awareness of some of the related initiatives that companies might need or wish to consider.