{"id":1360,"date":"2018-07-16T20:03:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T00:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2018-09-11T13:12:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:12:33","slug":"eu-sweden-proposes-rohs-restriction-of-mccp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/2018\/07\/16\/eu-sweden-proposes-rohs-restriction-of-mccp\/","title":{"rendered":"EU \u2013 Sweden Proposes RoHS Restriction of MCCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has received a proposal from Sweden to restrict medium-chained chlorinated paraffins (MCCP) under the EU RoHS Directive.\u00a0 MCCPs are one of the seven priority substances that were recently out for public consultation as part of a RoHS review.\u00a0 Rather than waiting for the due course of considering MCCP under the current RoHS review, Sweden is proactively pushing for the restriction.<\/p>\n<p>MCCPs are used in EEE as a flame retardant and plasticizer in certain plastic materials such as PVC used in cable sheathing.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal is now with the European Commission for next steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has received a proposal from Sweden to restrict medium-chained chlorinated paraffins (MCCP) under the EU RoHS Directive.\u00a0 MCCPs are one of the seven priority substances that were recently out for public consultation as part of a RoHS review.\u00a0 Rather than waiting for the due course of considering MCCP under the current RoHS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nl2018q3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}