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These lists are available for Swedish customers, as it based on a tool from the Swedish Chemicals Agency.
PRIO is the Swedish Chemical Agency's tool for finding and possibly replacing hazardous substances in goods or chemical products. If a substance has certain environmental and health-damaging properties according to established criteria, it is a Priority Risk Reduction substance or a Phase-out substance (with the most serious properties).
In iChemistry, we have three lists for you to be able to identify the products that contain risk reduction and phase-out substances:
1. KEMI's PRIO Risk reduction
2. KEMI's PRIO Phasing out
3. KEMI's PRIO Phasing out without complex hydrocarbons, butane and isobutane
1. KEMI's PRIO Risk reduction
Priority risk reduction substances are substances classified with the following properties: Allergenic (Skin sensitizing in category 1 or 1B), Carcinogenic (category 2), Environmentally hazardous long-term effects (category chronic 1 or 4), Mutagent (category 2), Very high acute toxicity, Potential PBT/ vPvB, Harmful to reproduction (category 2), Harmful to reproduction (effects on or via lactation), Specific organ damage after repeated exposure (category 1)
The restricted list matches the constituent substances of your chemical products, which are identified by CAS and EC numbers, if these substances are included in KEMI PRIO's database of risk reduction substances. All restriction lists in iChemistry are indicative, i.e. they do not take into account e.g. concentration levels of the substance causing the match.
2. KEMI's PRIO Phasing out
Phase-out substances are substances classified with the following properties: CMR (carcinogenic, mutagenic or reproductive disturbance, category 1A or 1B), Fluorinated greenhouse gases, Endocrine disruptor, Strong allergenic (Respiratory sensitizer in category 1 or skin sensitizer in category 1A), Ozone depleting, PBT/vPvB, Particularly dangerous metals (Cd, Hg, Pb), PFAS (particularly persistent substances).
The restriction list matches the constituent substances of your chemical products, which are identified by CAS and EC numbers, if these substances are included in KEMI PRIO's phase-out substance database. All restriction lists in iChemistry are indicative, i.e. they do not take into account e.g. concentration levels of the substance causing the match.
3. KEMI's PRIO Phasing out without complex hydrocarbons, butane and isobutane
To simplify the work with phase-out substances, we have created a list (3) in which we exclude complex hydrocarbons, butane and isobutane.
Complex hydrocarbons can be classified as carcinogenic and mutagenic if they contain substances such as benzene and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). When the levels of these substances fall below certain limit values, the complex hydrocarbon must no longer be classified as carcinogenic. On the market, the majority of complex hydrocarbons are treated and should therefore not be considered as phase-out substances. This is the reason why substances belonging to the group of complex hydrocarbons in PRIO are followed by the text "Note! Not always valid".
Butane and Isobutane need not be classified as carcinogenic or mutagenic if it can be demonstrated that it contains less than 0.1% by weight of 1,3-butadiene (Einecs no. 203-450-8). On the market, butane and isobutane usually do not contain >0.1% butadiene and should therefore not be considered as phase-out substances.
The restriction list KEMI's PRIO Phase-out (2) can therefore in some cases generate "false matches" of your products, which we want to avoid with this third PRIO list.
The restriction list matches the constituent substances of your chemical products, which are identified by CAS and EC numbers, if these substances are included in KEMI PRIO's database for phase-out substances, with the exception of complex hydrocarbons, butane and isobutane. All restriction lists in iChemistry are indicative, i.e. they do not take into account e.g. concentration levels of the substance causing the match.
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