REACH

The glycol ether producers in Europe are working together since more than 10 years in a consortium. For further information please see the Consortia page and for more details please contact the Consortium Manager.

All registration are aimed to be kept up to date in full respect of the Cefic Action Plan to improve dossier quality. The goal of the Action Plan is to achieve a better alignment between the data that have been submitted in good faith by registrants and ECHA’s current expectations on the content of dossiers.

DNEL/PNEC

The Derived No Effect Levels (DNEL) and Predicted No Effect Concentrations (PNEC) for certain members were developed in the course of the registration under REACH for each member of the glycol ether family based on the available human hazard and environmental effect data. The values for the each glycol ether can be found here in the published data of the registration dossiers.

GES

The European Solvents Industry Group (ESIG) has developed an approach of generic exposure scenarios (GES) for solvents that the consortium has used for the glycol ether family. Solvents are clustered by hazard and volatility; the uses of solvents are clustered by a combination of their hazard profile and key physico-chemical properties i.e. different use combinations that represent similar risks and are controlled using similar risk management approaches. The exposure assessments can be freely downloaded as usemaps or as excel files.