If you are a company manufacturing or importing chemicals into Europe, under the REACH legislation you have new responsibilities.

假如你是生產或進口化學原料至歐洲，依據新的歐洲REACH法規，你必需有新的義務

You must register each of your ingredients with the REACH authority, which is called the European Chemicals Agency, who have their headquarters in Helsinki.

你必需向總部設於芬蘭首都赫爾辛基; 負責REACH法規的歐洲化學品管理局註冊每個產品原料。

Whether it’s an old fashioned ingredient used for generations, or a brand new ingredient you’re currently inventing

不論是使用多年的舊成分或是全新研發的新成分，所有都必須進行登記且提供一系列該成分的安全報告。

all must be registered and a series of safety data about that material supplied.

讓我們用以下完整的說明例子來解釋其運作方式

So let’s take a completely imaginary example to show how it works.

假設你是一個香草醛的製造商。(香草醛是人造的合成香草，普遍用於加強食物及香水的香氣。)

So for example you are a manufacturer of Vanillin, which is the artificial vanilla that we are all used to tasting in lots of our foods and smelling in perfumes every day.

你必須向REACH註冊成為香草醛的生產商。

You have to register with the Agency and say you are a vanillin manufacturer.

然後，該機構會把註冊相同成分的公司組成一個名為SIEF的共同團體。

The Agency then sees how many companies have registered that ingredient and organises them into a group called a SIEF.

SIEF代表一個資訊交流的平台

This stands for Substance Information Exchange Forum.

在香草醛SIEF中，可能包含規模大的公司至較小的公司，當然也有過去提供給LUSH原料的小供應商。

On your Vanillin SIEF there might be huge companies, some of them might be smaller,

這個SIEF團體必須負責向REACH法規申報該成分的所有安全文件。

one might even be even be a completely animal testing free company who already sell to Lush.

為此，每個廠商必須匯整並確認所有提出的數據

This group is then responsible for supplying a dossier of all the safety data that the REACH legislation requires for that ingredient.

如果發現任何欠缺的數據，就必需補齊所有文件。

You are expected to pool all the data that you all have and make sure you have everything needed for the dossier.

假設在香草醛的SIEF團體中，欠的數據如 熔解溫度 燃點或易燃性 眼睛刺激性試驗

If you find there are gaps in the data, together you are expected to fill these gaps.

所以，你必須與團體中的公司合作找出欠缺的數據資料，如未能找出存在的資料，得就再進行測試

So let’s say for Vanillin no one on your SIEF has data for maybe

所以，你必須與團體中的公司合作找出欠缺的數據資料，如未能找出存在的資料，得就再進行測試

Температура плавления

但誰得出錢出力進行成分的測試呢﹖

Melting Temperature

可能是團體中每個公司共同分擔費用，或同意進行測試的公司獨自吸收費用。但各個SIEF團體會進行討論及辯論進而決定自行的解決方案。

Flashpoint or Flammability

熔解溫度、燃點和易燃性的數據可以從實驗室的測試中取得。

Eye Irritation

但眼睛刺激性的資料卻比較麻煩

So together now you have to decide how to find that data elsewhere,

因為還未出現健全的替代方案，所以導致動物測試的機會非常高。

if you couldn’t find it elsewhere how are you going to test for those things.

所以，所屬的SIEF團體將需向歐洲化學品管理局申請進行動物測試，以完成完整的資料。

If you are going to test who is going to pay for it and who is going to do the testing for the group.

這就是LUSH對REACH法規的擔憂。

It could be that all of you pay a little bit towards it, it could be that one of the companies agrees to do the testing and bear the costs

LUSH供應商可能因所屬的SIEF圑體的需求，而必需進行動物測試。

but each SIEF will discuss that and debate it and come up with their own arrangements.

但因為LUSH一直以來嚴格反對動物測試，所有的供應商也完全不能進行任何的動物測試。

So you can get the Melting Temperature tests done in a laboratory in test tubes. Same with Flash Point and Flammability.

我們政策表明不會向任何作動物測試的供應商採購。

But Eye Irritation data, that’s a little more tricky.

但因REACH法規之下，之前承諾不做動物測試的LUSH供應商有可能因法規及SIEF團體的要求，而加入動物測試，以完成整個數據文件。

That could very likely lead to having to test on animals, because there is currently no complete alternative available.

這樣的情況讓我們非常痛心！

So your SIEF would have to apply to the European Chemical Agency, telling them that you need to conduct animal tests to complete the dossier.

因為，我們辛苦堅守17年不做動物測試的努力都會被嚴重踐踏！

That’s is why Lush is worried about REACH.

法律的存在是應該引導人們做正確的事，並非強迫我們做一些非常愚蠢和錯誤的事情。

Our suppliers might end up on a SIEF that has to animal test.

LUSH將永遠不會對REACH法規而作出妥協，直到動物測試於其法規中刪除。

Because of our strict animal testing policy, all of Lush’s suppliers over the years have been completely free of animal testing.

Our policy says we wont buy from any supplier, who tests any ingredient for any reason on animals.

REACH means that our suppliers who were previously committed to no animal testing

could suddenly find themselves required by law to be party to testing via their SIEF in order to complete their dossier.

And that makes us weep.

To be honest, after 17 years of running a cruelty free business, It makes us angry.

Laws should exist to guide people to do the right thing, not force them to do something so very, very wrong.

Lush will never be comfortable with the REACH legislation

until all animal testing is removed from it.