Survey of Green Platform Chemicals - Data surveyed via ECHA

ECHA's data on Green Platform Chemicals

The spreadsheet contains publicly available information on a list of so-called "platform chemicals" provided by ECHA's (European Chemicals Agency) public database. It can be used to get a quick overview of the substances identities, their registration status, potential hazards, ongoing and concluded regulatory processes under REACH and potential future categorizations.

Context and methodology

The data was surveyed in context of the master thesis "Survey of Green Platform Chemicals" and aims to identify these so-called platform chemicals as well as to give a preliminary evaluation of their hazards. The dataset serves as quick overview of potentially "green" platform chemicals as well as over publicly available information provided by ECHA.

The dataset was created by:

Surveying scientific literature and searching for substances termed "platform chemicals", "platform molecules" and "building blocks" AND checking if the proposed substances had possible renewable production pathways.

The compiled list of chemicals was then surveyed using ECHA's online database.

The survey was performed in June 2024, the last access to ECHA's database was on 30.6.2024.

Technical details

The structure of the spreadsheet is explained in detail in the README file.

The spreadsheet contains the following information of the surveyed platform chemicals:

Substance identity

Harmonised and notified classifications

Registration Status

Entries in the Public Activity Tool (PACT)

Regulatory Obligations other than stated in REACH

Possible Categorization as SVHC (Substance of Very High Concern), MHC (Most Harmful Chemical) and SOC (Substance of Concern) based on their harmonised and notified classifications according to REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, the Ecosdesign for Sustainable Products Regulation EU 2024/1781 and the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability of the European Union.

The data is saved as a .xlsx file the README as a .txt file.

Further details

The data used in this survey is made publicly available by ECHA based on the REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006.

Information on PMT (persistent, mobile, toxic) and vPvM (very Persistent, very Mobile) properties of chemicals was taken from the report "Prioritised PMT/vPvM substances in the REACH registration database" from the German Environment Agency published in 2023 and available online at DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.14914.15047 or https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/prioritised-pmtvpvm-substances-in-the-reach (Last Access 21.5.2025).