Specific Consumer Exposure Determinants (SCEDs) for key uses of fuels and lubricants

Report no. 15/14: Under the REACH regulation, registrants are required to demonstrate the absence of significant risk when consumers are exposed to their registered substances. To do this, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has identified preferred REACH consumer risk assessment tools, all of which are very conservative, and frequently lead to the (false) indication of a potential concern. Specific Consumer Exposure Determinants (SCEDs) were developed as a standardized way to transparently show when and how consumer exposures to substances occur and is now the preferred way forward to describe consumer exposures under REACH.

As part of Concawe’s contribution to the ECHA Network on Exposure Scenarios (ENES), Concawe worked with the Downstream Users of Chemicals Coordination Group (DUCC) to develop SCEDs for the two primary consumer uses of petroleum products, fuels and lubricants. This report outlines the development and basis of the 9 Concawe’s SCEDs that cover a range of common uses of petroleum products (fuels and lubricant uses).