European Commission Exposure Scenario Workshop

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European Commission Exposure Scenario Workshop

• REACH exposure scenarios a CEPE view
• Tony Newbould
• Arona
• 14 February 2006

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to cover

• Industry profile
• Coatings and inks
• manufacture
• uses
• Ideas for
• ESs for manufacture
• ESs for use

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What is CEPE?

• represents manufacturers of
• decorative coatings
• printing inks
• industrial coatings
• artists colours
• CEPE is
• 1400 companies 80 of industry
• 70 SME/M 12 global companies
• 3,000 non-members most SME/M

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Coatings and inks manufacture - recap

• turn raw materials into coatings/inks
• raw materials usually preparations,some
  substances
• typically 20 RMs used
• ? 60 substances
• each substance has own upstream chain
• batch manufacturing process
• range of products
• ever changing RM combinations
• typical portfolio
• 300 1,000 raw materials
• 5,000 30,000 preparations
• many steps removed from the M/I

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Uses of our products

• Consumer decorative coating, artists colour,
  yacht paint
• millions of users
• minimal chemical interest/not in REACH
• Industrial fixed installation coating printing
  of components and of finished articles
• hundreds of thousands
• very many SMEs
• dont perceive themselves as chemical users
• Professional maintenance repair of articles
  painting, maintenance, repair of structures and
  articles on-site in-situ
• tens hundreds of thousands
• little awareness of chemicals

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Why CEPE interest in ES (1)?

• need practical process addressing
• our use of multiplicity of substances in
  preparations
• our customers use of preparations
• no disadvantage at interfaces
• raw material supplier - coatings manufacturer
• coatings manufacturer - coatings user
• consistency and clarity of
• information
• risk reduction measures
• presentation of information

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Why CEPE interest in ES (2)?

• controls
• appropriate, proportionate, pragmatic
• industry expertise
• chemically aware
• established track-record on industry best
  practice/ guidance/standards

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ES manufacture

• bottom-up approach
• not a single manufacturing process
• wide range of RMs and combinations in use
• issues to address
• interpretation of use standardised
  descriptions
• potential exposure routes for each use
• methodology for risk assessments
• RRM for each use/exposure combination
• grouping substances
• template ESs for each group/use/exposure
  combination

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Process steps/potential exposure routes
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Process steps/potential exposure routes
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Practical use of RM ESs

• coatings and inks manufacture
• single substances not used alone
• combinations change during working day
• many substances around at any one point in time
• impracticable to comply with each substance ES
• critical component approach
• control worst substance for each exposure route
  

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ES - use

• bottom-up approach
• very many different products/application
  processes
• consumer and industrial uses
• exposure to preparations
• wide level of expertise in control of chemicals
• issues to address
• interpretation of use standardised
  descriptions
• potential exposure routes for each use
• methodology for risk assessments
• RRM for each use/exposure combination
• template ESs for each use/exposure combination
  
• preparation of eSDS for coatings and inks

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CEPE role in ES preparation

• manufacture
• process knowledge
• RRM knowledge
• use
• encouraging industrial user involvement
• co-ordinating user inputs
• to avoid duplication/inconsistencies
• involvement in consumer uses
• use and RRM knowledge
• guidance for preparation eSDSs
• industry expertise into RIP 3.2-2

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More information/contacts

• industry information
• www.cepe.org
• www.eupia.org
• www.reach-coatings.org
• contact
• Tony Newbould
• tony.newbould_at_bcf.co.uk