General:: Concentration Limit: Not Detected: Usage Ban Homogeneous: Kinematic Limit: Reporting Limit

RSL (UPDATED ON JANURAY 2019)
GENERAL :
Due to concerns for the health of customers, as well as for the environment and working conditions, H&M group has
established H&M group Chemical Restrictions for all products. H&M group Chemical Restrictions consists of several parts, covering
manufacturing (Manufacturing Restricted Substances List, MRSL) and specific product types (Restricted Substances List, RSL); this
document concerns Chemical Restrictions for Apparel, Accessories, Footwear and Home Interior Textile Products. Each limit in H&M
group Chemical Restrictions is valid for homogeneous parts of the concerned product if not otherwise stated.
COMMITMENT:
By accepting H&M standard purchase conditions, the supplier commits to comply with H&M chemical restrictions.It is
supplier’s responsibility to assure compliance with H&M Group chemical restrictions and to inform their suppliers and
subcontractors about the content of H&M Group chemical restrictions.
DEFINITIONS:
Concentration Limit: The substance must not be present in the product at concentrations above this limit
Not Detected: The substance must not be present in the tested sample at concentrations above the analytical reporting limits.
Usage ban: The substance must not be used in production and it must not be added to the product
Homogeneous: Uniform composition throughout, i.e. a material that cannot be mechanically disjointed into different materials.
Kinematic Limit: Describes how fast a fluid is spread on a flat surface in relation to its mass, i.e. weight.
Reporting limit: Describes the level of detection times a safety factor selected by the laboratory that ensures repeatability and
reproducibility
Self-declaration: All chemicals used should have Safety Data Sheets, SDS, showing that no restricted substance is included.
Upon request supplier must be able to present the SDS for the chemicals used in the production of the requested product.
Substances defined as hazardous due to intrinsic properties: Persistent, bio accumulative and toxic (PBT), very
persistent and very bio accumulative (vPvB), carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic for reproduction (CMR), endocrine disruptors (ED) or equivalent
concern.
1 Impurities at low concentrations of these substances may be accepted only if technically unavoidable due to e.g. raw materials, formation in the manufacturing
process, storage or packaging.
ABBRIVIATIONS:
CAS no: Chemical Abstracts Service number, an identification number for chemicals in this database.
CI no: Color Index number
MRSL: Manufacturing Restricted Substances List
Ppm: Parts per million, which is the same as mg/kg.
Percentage: Percentage is weight by weight, % w/w
REACH: Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals
SVHC: Substances of Very High Concern
SUBSTANCES LIMIT / REQUIREMENT REPORTING LIMIT

Alkylphenol Ethoxylates / Alkylphenols
1 (APEOs/APs)
NPE,OPE 50 mg/kg 20 mg/kg
NP,OP 5 mg/kg 5 mg/kg
2 AZO (Listed Amines) 20 mg/kg 5 mg/kg
3 NAVY BLUE AND COLOURANTS 10 mg/kg 10 mg/kg
4 OTHER DYES / CI NO 50 mg/kg 15 mg/kg
5 ANILINE 10 mg/kg 10 mg/kg
6 BISPHENOL A 0.2 mg/kg 0.2 mg/kg
7 BISPHENOL A in PolyCarbonate (PC) 3 mg/kg 0.1 mg/kg
8 CATIONIC SURFACTANTS 10 mg/kg 10 mg/kg
9 CHLORINATED ORGANIC CARRIERS 1 mg/kg 0.2 mg/kg
CHLORINATED PARAFFINS for SCCP 100 mg/kg 30 mg/kg
CHLORINATED PARAFFINS for MCCP 1000 mg/kg
CHLOROPHENOLS {PCP - Childrens 0-3
10 Years} 0.05 mg/kg 0.05 mg/kg
CHLOROPHENOLS {PCP - Others} 0.5 mg/kg 0.05 mg/kg
CHLOROPHENOLS {TeCP - Childrens 0-3
Years} 0.05 mg/kg 0.05 mg/kg
CHLOROPHENOLS {TeCP - Others} 0.5 mg/kg 0.05 mg/kg
CHLOROPHENOLS {TrCP - Childrens 0-3
Years} 0.2 mg/kg (SUM) 0.05 mg/kg
CHLOROPHENOLS {TrCP - Others} 0.5 mg/kg 0.05 mg/kg
11 DIMETHYLFUMARATE (DMFu) 0.03 mg/kg 0.03 mg/kg
USAGE BAN / NOT
12 Flame retardants DETECTED 5 mg/kg
13 FORMALDIHYDE (0-3 Years) 0.05 abs (N/D) 0.05 abs
14 ISOCYANATES <3 mg/kg 3 mg/kg
15 ODOUR GRADE 2
16 OTC (Organotin Compounds) 1 mg/kg 0.05 mg/kg
PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS
17 (PFC/PFAS) N/D N/D
18 PHTHALATES 250 mg/kg per phthalate 50 mg/kg
SUM OF PHTHALATES
(<500 mg/kg)
POLY AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAH) -
19 childrens 0.5 mg/kg 0.2 mg/kg
POLY AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAH) -
others 1 mg/kg 0.2 mg/kg
20 PVC BANNED BANNED
21 REACH SVHC 1000 mg/kg
22 STYRENE 500 mg/kg 50 mg/kg
23 VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds)
BENZENE 5 mg/kg 5 mg/kg
OTHERS 500 mg/kg (TOTAL SUM) 20 mg/kg EACH
24 DISPERSE DYES 15 mg/kg 15 mg/kg
25 Heavy metals
CHROMIUM VI 0.5 mg/kg 0.5 mg/kg
MERCURY & CADMIUM 0.02 mg/kg
OTHERS 1 mg/kg
26 PH 5 to 6.5
27 PHENOLS - Others 5 mg/kg
PHENOLS - PCT (Polychlorinated Triphenols) 0.1 mg/kg
PHENOLS - PCB (Polychlorinated Biphenols) 0.1 mg/kg

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RSL (UPDATED ON JANURAY 2019)

CI no: Color Index number

MRSL: Manufacturing Restricted Substances List

Ppm: Parts per million, which is the same as mg/kg.

Percentage: Percentage is weight by weight, % w/w

REACH: Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals

SVHC: Substances of Very High Concern

SUBSTANCES LIMIT / REQUIREMENT REPORTING LIMIT

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