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SGS CAN REPRESENT YOU AT THE SUBSTANCE INFORMATION EXCHANGE FORUM AND LATER ON FOR CONSORTIA.
SGS will then help you negotiate the sharing of costs for the compilation of existing data, avoid the duplication of animal testing and generate new data to complete Registration.
It enables you to subcontract this task to SGS REACH experts and avoids you hiring skilled resources for a short-term period.
Why set up a SIEF?
One of the objectives of REACH is to limit vertebrate animal testing as far as possible. Therefore duplicate animal testing has to be avoided and tests on vertebrate animals for the purposes of REACH shall only be undertaken as a last resort.
Before new tests are conducted to comply with the identified information needs (Annex XI), and thus with the information requirements, potential registrants have to take part in the data sharing mechanisms set up for tests on vertebrate animals. They may use those mechanisms for other tests not involving vertebrate animals to save time and money.
Data will be protected for 10 years after their Registration. Then the Agency will make them freely available to all potential registrants asking for them.
Before testing on vertebrate animals is carried out, the potential registrant will need to check whether the same substance has already been registered, or whether another potential registrant is making an inquiry to register the same substance at the same time. This is done by looking in the Agency's database, and by submitting information to the Agency.
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