Under its Framework Agreement with ECHA, Risk & Policy Analysts Limited (RPA), with support from TNO, was contracted to assist ECHA with gathering the information required for an Annex XV restriction dossier with particular reference to:
- the identification of uses of cadmium and its compounds in plastic materials and the technical and economic feasibility of alternatives; and
- risk assessment of cadmium and its compounds in plastic materials as well as their alternatives.
