Oct 26, 2021 | 300-Plus Chemicals Lose Confidential Status In US EPA List
In October 2021, US EPA removed the confidentiality status for 377 substances, making their chemical status available to the public. According to the TSCA inventory, these chemicals make up about 8,00...
Nov 02, 2021 | China updates the registration platform to allow the generation of QR codes for hazardous chemicals
On the 7th of September, 2021, the Chemical Registration Centre in China upgraded its hazardous chemical substance registration platform based on the module of ’Platform + Applica...
Reversal Of Indian Ban On Using Recycled Plastics In FCMs
Oct 21, 2021
On the 17th of September 2021, India overturned its ban of recycled plastic in 2018, now allowing the use of recycled plastic in Food Contact Materials (FCMs). The exception to the new rule is that it...
China Issues Final List Of Substances Subject To Phase Out
Oct 21, 2021
On the 15th of September 2021, Chinese authorities approved a list of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in agreement and under the control of the Kigali Amendment. This is an am...
US EPA Releases A Comprehensive Roadmap For PFAs
Oct 21, 2021
To get ahead of problems that can impact those who make and use PFAs, the US EPA has issued a 26-pages roadmap to set an approach for research, restricting, and remediating these chemicals. Accordi...
New Turkish Food Codex Maximum of Pesticides Residual Limits Regulation is Published!
Oct 20, 2021
On the 27th of September 2021, the new Turkish Food Codex Maximum of Pesticides Residual Limits Regulation was published on the official gazette, after a public consultation on the draft in 2020....
Annexes of Turkey's Cosmetic Regulation are amended!
Oct 20, 2021
As published on the website of the official gazette, the Turkey cosmetic regulations’ annexes were amended in September. The parts that were amended include: Annex 2 (List of forbidden sub...
Access to EU’s First Public Database for SVHCs Now Available
Oct 20, 2021
The European Chemical Agency (ECHA) announced the SCIP Database in September 2021; this is a public database for Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) in EU products. SCIP da...
South Korea updates the list of low-risk biocidal substances to be exempted from K-BPR
Oct 18, 2021
National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea updated the list of low-risk biocidal substances, which can be exempted from K-BPR, on Sep 27th. There are 4 low-risk biocidal s...
Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) Version 9 is published
Oct 02, 2021
Certain amendments were proposed to the 8th version of GHS at the 10th session of the "Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classifica...
South Korea provides a guide to the classification of biocidal product types under K-BPR
Sep 27, 2021
National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea published a guide to the classification of biocidal product types on Aug 18th, 2021. This is to help industry to examine different ty...
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