No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
My view is that catalysts are a very special case of 'chemicals'. Shaped catalysts are anyway better regarded as 'articles', rather than 'chemicals'. I know of no examples of catalysts, used as they are intended, presenting any health hazards. To deliberately expose animals to catalysts for the purpose of administrative box-ticking would be obscene.
The costs of complying with REACH will fall disproportionately on the small and medium-sized companies. Its overall effect will undoubtedly be to shift chemical manufacturing from Europe to Asia. Perhaps this is the hidden agenda of its proponents.
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