{"id":348,"date":"2014-08-13T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rohs.ca\/iec62474\/?p=348"},"modified":"2018-12-13T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:59:38","slug":"substances-that-are-a-trade-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/iec62474\/2014\/08\/13\/substances-that-are-a-trade-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Substances that are a Trade Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Material declarations are a sensitive topic for material and part manufacturers that are using certain chemicals that they consider a trade secret.  The chemical, its application, and\/or the exact composition usually provides a competitive advantage that the manfuacturer wishes to protect.  <\/p>\n<p>The IEC 62474 material declaration standard allows manufacturers flexibility on how much of the chemical composition of the product they wish to declare. A manufacturer could provide a full material declaration of all substances except for those that are trade secrets. <\/p>\n<p>However, if the &#8220;trade secret&#8221; includes a substance or substance group that is listed on the IEC 62474 declarable substances list (DSL) with a mandaotry reporting requirement and it is present above the reporting threshold, then there is no flexibility; it must be included in the material declaration. The mandatory reporting requirement indicates that the substance is regulated and if it is used in a confidential manner, it can still cause a product to become non-compliant to a legal obligation.  Therefore, it is not allowed to leave out or try to hide such a substance in the material declaration.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Material declarations are a sensitive topic for material and part manufacturers that are using certain chemicals that they consider a trade secret. The chemical, its application, and\/or the exact composition usually provides a competitive advantage that the manfuacturer wishes to protect. The IEC 62474 material declaration standard allows manufacturers flexibility on how much of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-howto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/iec62474\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/iec62474\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/iec62474\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/iec62474\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/iec62474\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/iec62474\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/iec62474\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/iec62474\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/iec62474\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/iec62474\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}