New SIN List Database Will Assist In Identification of Chemicals of Concern
18 June 2010
A new user interface will help legislators, journalists, consumers, investors and manufacturers retrieve information regarding the 356 high-concern chemicals on the SIN List.
Since its launch in 2008, the SIN List has developed into a widely-used tool for identifying chemicals of high concern and an important point of reference for a range of regulatory, non-governmental and industry stakeholders.

Finding specific SIN chemicals has now been made even easier by the launch today of the new SIN List Database. Users can now refine their search and filter SIN list chemicals by:

  • possible uses
  • health and environmental concerns
  • cross reference with other EU lists of high concern
  • production volume

This will help users find out which SIN chemicals are, for example, used in textiles, are toxic to reproduction, and which also appear on the EU Candidate List for Substances of Very High Concern.

-We hope that the new and improved SIN List Database will enable an even wider range of actors to embrace and use the SIN List, says ChemSec Project Coordinator Jerker Ligthart. -The SIN List is already inspiring regulators and is being used as a concrete substitution tool by many companies. At the same time investors have also started to take notice of the SIN List, and hopefully they together with all other stakeholders will find this new database highly useful.

The SIN database launched today also includes new information on how the SIN chemicals are used, as well as the new updated information about the Equivalent Concern substances.
-The latest version of the database makes it much easier to home in on relevant chemicals, the ability to search by area of use is particularly valuable, adds Roy Miller, Social Responsibility Advisor at B&Q plc., the third largest home improvement retailer in the world.


Find the new SIN database here!: http://www.chemsec.org/database

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