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Jan 24, 2024 | EPA Finalizes Significant New Use Rule SNUR to Prevent Reentry of Inactive PFASs into Commerce
On January 8, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a Significant New Use Rule (SNUR) that prevents companies from resuming or initiating the production or processing of 329 p...
Jan 23, 2024 | South Korea publishes risk assessment results of 10 chemicals.
On December 28, 2023, the Risk Assessment Research Department of the National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) announced that it will publish the risk assessments results of 10 chemicals, in...
ECHA Adds 5 New Substances of Very High Concern to Candidate List
Jan 23, 2024
On 23 January 2024, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced that 5 chemicals have been added to the Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) due to their hazardous properties. T...
Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency Publishes Draft Hazardous Substances Rules
Jan 22, 2024
The Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency has recently published the draft Handling, Manufacture, Storage, Import of Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Substances Rules, 2024, in short the Hazardous Sub...
South Korea to help with costs of upgrading ageing hazardous chemical handling facilities.
Jan 22, 2024
The Korean Ministry of Environment and the Korea Environment Corporation are offering financial support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that handle hazardous chemicals to upgrade their ag...
EU Parliament adopts new regulations to reduce emissions of potent greenhouse gases.
Jan 20, 2024
In line with the EU's and the world's climate goals, the European Parliament adopted new regulations on January 16, 2024, to reduce emissions of potent greenhouse gases. In an effort to encourage the...
Malaysia opens public consultation on proposed revision of standards for the storage of hazardous substances
Jan 19, 2024
On 21 December 2023, the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) in Malaysia is opened a consultation on a proposed revision to its standards for the safe storage of packaged hazardous che...
Japan releases English version of Food Contact Material Positive List
Jan 19, 2024
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has taken a significant step towards improving transparency and accessibility by releasing an English version of its positive list of substances a...
Important Updates to the Great Britain Mandatory Classification and Labelling List
Jan 18, 2024
On 11 January 2024, the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) announced that it is proposing to update the status of the list entries for 90 substances on the Great Britain Mandatory Classification and...
East African countries notify draft fertilizer standards to WTO
Jan 18, 2024
On 11 December 2023, five East African countries (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda) notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) of Draft East African Standards for 10 fertilisers. The noti...
Quality Control Order for polyethylene used in extrusion and moulding established in India
Jan 18, 2024
On 4 January 2024, the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals (DCPC) of India, in accordance with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has issued a Quality Control Order (QCO) for polyethylene use...
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