Low production volume chemicals LPVCs

Council Regulation 793/93 divides existing chemicals into two categories High Production Volume Chemicals (HPVC), produced or imported in quantities exceeding 1000 tonnes per year and Low Production Volume Chemicals (LPVC), produced or imported in quantities between 10 and 1000 tonnes per year. The hst of HPVCs includes 22 phthalic acid esters, both single compounds and technical mixtures with dilferent isomers. A further 11 phthalates are compiled in the list of LPVC. The most commonly used phthalate esters are DEHP (which accounts for around half of consumption in Western Europe, DINP and DIDP, which represents the 52.2% of phthalate consumption in the United States and more than 85% of phthalate esters production in Western Europe. ... [Pg.1109]

Phase III Low Production Volume Chemicals (LPVCs) produced or imported between 10 and 1,000 tonnes per year. Data were required by June 1998. [Pg.83]

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