What it is: An EU regulation that bans or strictly restricts the production, use and presence of persistent organic pollutants, which are chemical substances that don't break down in the environment, accumulate in living organisms and travel long distances through air and water. Why you're receiving this request: POPs requests are increasingly common as the regulated substance list expands. Some POPs are pesticides, industrial chemicals, or unintentional by-products formed

What it is: An EU directive that restricts the use of ten specific hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (EEE). Adopted in the early 2000s and since expanded, the restricted substances currently include lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, and four phthalates. Why you're receiving this request: If you supply any component or material that ends up in an electrical or electronic product so

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