Melamine REACH Consortium
The Relevant representative of the melamine business in Europe have joined efforts for their REACH compliance activities and have launched the Melamine REACH consortium in May 2009.
The Relevant representative of the melamine business in Europe have joined efforts for their REACH compliance activities and have launched the Melamine REACH consortium in May 2009.
The Consortium Members agreed to cooperate in the preparation of a REACH Registration dossier for Melamine with the aim to cover major uses of the substance.
The dossier will include information for harmonised classification and labelling. The consortium is managed by ReachCentrum.
The following substances have been registered under the REACH legislation by December 2010:
| Substance | CAS number | EC number |
| Melamine | 108-78-1 | 203-615-4 |
The Melamine REACH consortium structure includes a Steering Committee and a Technical Committee. The consortium is open to manufacturers, importers and only representatives as defined in the REACH regulation and includes their Affiliates.
Current members of the Melamine consortium are:
Please find attached the proposed substance identity profile of Melamine.
Starting from end of May 2020 the substance Melamine has been self-classified by the Consortium as Repro Cat 2 (H361f) (Labelling: H361f according to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008).
Each registrant will need to comply with Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures and therefore the Consortium advises all co-registrants to act on this new information and self-classify the substance accordingly.
A list of supported and unsupported uses of melamine is to be supplied. The Chemical Safety Report (CSR) is available showing the results of the Exposure Assessments.
The final CSR will not be jointly submitted, however all Joint Registrants will receive a core CSR that they can modify as needed before adding to their own registrations. This is to ensure needed flexibility for companies to manage their own CSRs.
The rationale behind the selection of the applicable life cycle stages for the Melamine uses is available here.
An analytical method has been developed for the detection and quantification of melamine and related substances in aqueous media, including ammeline, ammelide, cyanuric acid, cyromazine, hexamethoxymethylmelamine, and others.
The method depicts a low limit of quantification (LoQ), reaching 0.050 μg/L for cyanuric acid and 0.010 μg/L for melamine and other compounds, enabling assessments that were previously not feasible.
Quantification is performed via calibration with analytical standards in water, and isotope-labelled internal standards are used to correct for intensity variations.
For more details, check the attached Short Method Description and Sampling Protocol.
The LoA is now available. Please use this link to access the LoA e-shop: http://loashop.reachcentrum.eu/
