What this tab covers How it is regulated and what could disrupt supply: hazard classification, rules in the EU, US and India, anti-dumping duties and other trade measures, and supply-risk notes.
UN3077 where classified environmentally hazardous (indicative)
Endocrine disruptor (EU SVHC); exposure through food-contact materials and thermal paper.
Main rules
Where
Rule
Effect
EU
Regulation (EU) 2024/3190 banning BPA and other hazardous bisphenols in food-contact materials, with transition periods (indicative)
Ends BPA in can linings, bottles and food equipment in the EU
EU
REACH SVHC (reproductive toxicity 2017, endocrine disruption 2017-2018); Annex XVII limit of 0.02% in thermal paper from 2 January 2020 (indicative)
Pushes substitution
EU
EFSA 2023 tolerable daily intake 0.2 ng/kg body weight per day (indicative)
Basis for the food-contact ban
India
Rule
Effect
BIS standard amendments banning BPA in infant feeding bottles (2015, indicative)
Removed BPA from baby bottles
MSIHC Rules 1989
Site safety (indicative)
Trade measures
No current Indian anti-dumping duty on BPA found; an earlier duty on Japanese BPA expired in 2000 (EximGuru).
Supply risk
India is fully import-dependent until about 2028-2030. Concentration in China and Taiwan. Not on critical lists, but on EU substance restriction lists.