The Toxic and hazardous substances, also commonly referred to as restricted substances or regulated substances, refer to chemicals that can cause unacceptable risks to human health or the environment, such as substances that are carcinogenic, teratogenic, sensitizing, reproductively toxic Substances, bioaccumulative substances.
Hazardous substances include categories as follows:
• Heavy metals (cadmium and cadmium compounds, lead and lead compounds, mercury and mercury compounds, hexavalent chromium compounds)
• Organochlorine compounds (polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated naphthalenes, chlorinated alkanes, other organochlorine compounds)
• Organic bromine compounds (polybrominated biphenyls, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, tetrabromobisphenol-A-bis-, other organic bromine compounds)
• Organotin compounds (tributyltin compounds, triphenyltin compounds)
Asbestos, azo compounds, formaldehyde, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and mixtures of polyvinyl chloride, etc.
Matexcel recommendations for testing hazardous substances
• Natural, synthetic textiles:
Recommended tests: heavy metals, formaldehyde, azo, phenol, organotin, alkylphenols/ethers, dimethyl fumarate, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (with waterproof layer or oil layer)
• Natural, synthetic leather, rubber
Recommended tests: heavy metals, hexavalent chromium, formaldehyde, azo, phenol, organotin, alkylphenol/ether, dimethyl fumarate, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (with waterproof layer or oil layer)
• plastic
Recommended tests: heavy metals, organotin, o-benzene, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, cadmium
• Coating
Recommended tests: heavy metals, formaldehyde, organotin, alkylphenols/ethers, o-benzene, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
• metal
Recommended test: heavy metals, nickel release (direct contact with skin)
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