Philips supports the objective of REACH to further improve the European Union’s regulation on chemicals, including the aim to advance public health and safety and to protect the environment.
We have requested our component or finished products suppliers to provide us information on the relevant chemicals in their supplied products. This enables us to provide our customers and consumers with information about so called substances of very high concern (SVHC) from the candidate SVHC list of the REACH regulation, as required by article 33 of REACH.
The European Court of Justice ruled on 10th September 2015, on EU REACH Regulation article definition, that each of the articles, that are assembled or joined together in a complex product, remain as articles and are covered by the relevant duties to notify and provide information when they contain a substance of very high concern in a concentration above 0.1% of their mass.
For substances which are likely to be found in component articles within our electronic products, we refer to the List of Substances of the Standard IEC 62474 and on the Restricted and Declarable Substances List of Bomcheck.
Specific examples are given in table below:
| Philips Product category | Substance of Very High Concern | CAS Number | Comments |
| Cables and other PVC-based components of electric and electronic equipment | DEHP, bis(2-ethyl(hexyl)phthalate DIBP, diisobutyl phthalate | 117-81-7 84-69-5 | This substance may be present in separately sold PVC cables and PVC cables or parts along with the appliances |
| Components of electric and electronic equipment | Lead | 7439-92-1 | This substance may be present in e.g., lead solders, as an alloying element in steel and aluminium, in galvanised steel components and in copper alloys (applications exempted by the EU RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU, Annexes III and IV). For example, lead in X-ray shielding. |
| Portable mesh nebuliser | 2-(2H-benzotriazol-2-yl)-4,6-ditertpentylphenol (UV-328) | 25973-55-1 | This substance may be present in the handset button. |
| Used in the manufacture of silicone polymers such as gaskets and o-rings | Dodecamethylcyclohexasiloxane (D6) | 540-97-6 | This substance may be present as a residue from the manufacturing process. |
| 3D glasses | Boric acid | 10043-35-3 11113-50-1 | This substance may be present in the lenses of 3D glasses |
| Sonalleve MR-HIFU (healthcare equipment) | acrylamide | 79-06-1 | This substances may be present in the QA Phantom for the Sonalleve MR-HIFU in more than 0.1% but less than 0.25% of the phantom weight |
| Lithium-Manganese Dioxide Cylindrical and Coin-type (CR) Battery | 1,2-dimethoxyethane; ethylene glycol dimethyl ether (EGDME) | 110-71-4 | This substance is used as a solvent for electrolyte inside the battery |
| Professional Lighting fluorescent TLD Secura lamps | Phenol, 2-(2H-benzotriazol-2-yl)-4,6-bis(1,1-dimethylpropyl) | 25973-55-1 | This substance may be present in protective coatings for glass fragment retention |
| PUVA Phototherapy fluorescent lamps | Silicic acid (H₂Si₂O₅), barium salt (1:1), lead-doped | 68784-75-8 | This substance is used in internal coatings for color /09 type fluorescent lamps used for PUVA Phototherapy applications |
| Core M2s (Mobile Controller Console – healthcare equipment) | Diarsenic pentaoxide Diarsenic trioxide Triethyl arsenate Arsenic acid | 1303-28-2 1327-53-3 15606-95-8 7778-39-4 | These substances may be present in electric component within the DVD-R. |
