Improving the Identification, Evaluation, Adoption and Development of Safer Alternatives: Needs and Opportunities to Enhance

ECHA wishes to improve its support for substitution, and to contribute to the improvement of methods and practices for the analysis of substitution solutions. To this end it has commissioned a study to American academics, which contains a series of recommendations, starting with the increase of the resources allocated to support substitution within ECHA and the Member States, and the constitution of a training network, and support for public authorities and industries. The study also suggests to support communication within the industry, and to develop public-private partnerships for the search for substitutes.