REACH stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of CHemicals.
These regulations require any company producing, importing, using or placing a substance, mixture or an article on the EU market is responsible for making sure they are compliant with the REACH Regulation. The legislation covers not only European producers, including chemical distributors, suppliers, and downstream users but also any EU companies importing products to the EU market.
Approximately 4130 substances are subject of the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals; REACH regulation of tattoo inks. Using substitutable pigments and effective and safe preservatives along with a selection of auxiliary compounds shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve. It just means changing the way things have
traditionally been manufactured. For most of us working within the industry these changes should be embraced.