Washington-In order to assist its membership with the compliance process associated with the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) program, TFI has begun to issue letters of access granting members the right to cite data generated through TFI’s product testing program. In April 2008, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) concluded the approval process of data generated by TFI and the European Fertilizer Manufacturers Association (EFMA) for inclusion into an international database of chemicals. The complete OECD-approved data set includes five product testing dossiers on 25 fertilizer materials. Any fertilizer manufacturer that exports fertilizer products to the European Union must be prepared to comply with the regulations stipulated by the REACH program. Successful adoption by OECD of those fertilizer products also confers regulatory approval through the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) High Production Volume (HPV) data challenge.
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