NEWS - August 2010:
IASC Clarifies REACH Applicability to Aloe Vera
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NEWS - August 2010: IASC Clarifies REACH Applicability to Aloe Vera |
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IASC Clarifies REACH Applicability to Aloe Vera August 13, 2010 – The International Aloe Science Council (IASC) announced the availability of a newly developed position paper on the applicability of the REACH Regulations to aloe vera raw materials.
REACH is the acronym for the European Union (EU) regulation Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals. The law took effect on June 1, 2007 and will be phased in over an 11 year period. It was developed and implemented to replace about 40 other legislative controls in an effort to streamline and improve the former legislative framework on chemicals marketed in the EU. The program is managed by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), who handles the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction processes for chemical substances.
The IASC position paper clearly and concisely demonstrates the inapplicability of the REACH regulations and requirements to register to aloe vera raw materials. “Members were contacting the IASC requesting clarification of the regulations applicability due to questions they were receiving from downstream users of the ingredient within the EU member states,” said IASC Executive Director Devon Powell. The IASC had the position paper reviewed by Mark Mansour, partner with Bryan Cave, LLP, an international legal expert with intimate knowledge of the regulations, who expressed his agreement with the position taken by the Council.
“The regulation is highly complex, and made even more so as they weren’t written specifically with the food, dietary supplement or natural products industry in mind; it was intended for other materials and equipment containing or made with chemicals - such as computers and furniture,” said Powell.
For more information, interested parties are encouraged to review the IASC Draft guidance on REACH – “Understanding the Reach Regulations and Their Impact on the Herbal Products Industry”. For more specific questions, the IASC recommends seeking assistance from knowledgeable consultants and taking advantage of the ECHA regional helpdesks. A list of EU national helpdesks can be found at THIS LINK, which, along with the ECHA website, is available in multiple languages.
The Position Paper
is available for download on the IASC website’s Policies page or
directly by following THIS
LINK. For more information contact:
Devon Powell |