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Companies Stretch to Meet REACH Deadlines

Half of submissions come within three weeks of the Dec. 1 cut off.

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By: TOM BRANNA

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It was a bit of a stretch, but in the end, there were plenty of chemical companies willing to comply with the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization Chemicals (REACH) regulations. More than 2.2 million companies — including beauty firms — that manufacture chemicals in or import chemicals to Europe and the European Economic Area countries, including Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, preregistered the substances by midnight Dec. 1 under REACH.. The six month registration processes ended up...

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