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Total lead, cadmium, mercury, and hexavalent chromium in any package or packaging component

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Regulatory context

Here you can find all of the regulations and regulatory lists in which this substance appears, according to the data available to ECHA. This substance has been found in the following regulatory activities (directly, or inheriting the regulatory context of a parent substance):

Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive
  • Packaging Waste Directive - Heavy Metals Concentration Level
    EU. Heavy Metals in Packaging and Packaging Waste (Article 11), Directive 94/62/EC, as amended by Directive 2018/852/EU, 14 June 2018

    This list contains heavy metals subject to use restrictions under Article 11 of the EU Packaging Directive. The concentration of these heavy metals in packaging may not exceed the stated levels. The levels are differentiated between packaging made of glass and other materials.

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Substance names and other identifiers

Regulatory process names
Heavy metals: lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium
Packaging Waste Directive - Heavy Metals Concentration Level
Total lead, cadmium, mercury, and hexavalent chromium in any package or packaging component
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