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Oct 06, 2022 | Developing a worldwide chemicals database: EU US and Canada make initial strides.
The US, Canada, and EU are about to start a pilot project that will test a system for exchanging data on substances and provide guidance on the potential development of a global database of informatio...
Oct 06, 2022 | Australia proposes changes to the rules for introduction of low-volume substances
Until the 11 October 2022 the Australian Chemicals Introduction Scheme (AICIS) is consulting on proposed alterations to the Industrial Chemicals (General) Rules 2019, regarding certain lower risk chem...
California lawmakers pass legislation to ban PFAS for cosmetic products
Oct 04, 2022
On 23 August 2022, the California State Assembly passed legislation ‘AB 2771’. The bill would ban the sale in California of any cosmetics and personal care products that contain any type of PFAS (...
Vietnam proposes a circular draft discerning the differences industrial and food-grade alcohol
Oct 06, 2022
On August 19, 2022, Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) released a draft circular on distinguishing food-grade and non-food-grade alcohol based on the national technical regulation for alcoh...
South Korea provides a guideline for preparing for biocidal product approval submissions
Oct 06, 2022
National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea provides a guideline to prepare biocidal product approval submissions. Under the Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides Safety Contr...
Deadline for updating EU SDSs is approaching
Oct 04, 2022
The deadline for updating EU Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) authored before January 2021 is approaching. All SDSs compiled under EU 2015/830 must be replaced by 31 December 2022 with a new SDS authored ...
Japan publishes the Schedule for Notifications of New Chemicals for 2023
Sep 29, 2022
On 9 September 2022, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW), the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), and the Ministry of Environment (MoE) jointly published the Notif...
South Korea consults for the draft on Cosmetics Preservation Test Guidelines
Sep 28, 2022
National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation (NIFDS) in South Korea consults on a draft on Cosmetics Preservation Test Guidelines on September 26th, 2022. This is to strengthen the quality an...
Vietnam publishes new development strategies on domestic chemical industry
Sep 27, 2022
On June 16th, 2022, a decision approving Vietnam’s chemical industry development strategy was signed by deputy prime minister Le Van Thanh. Under the strategies, new policies, tasks, and measur...
Ratification of pesticides in Kenya
Sep 26, 2022
The latest update of the Pest Control Products Bill, 2022 was published in Kenya in April 2022. It represents an urgent update to the existing Kenyan pesticide regulation. After various analyses, i...
Saudi Arabia updates the permitted use of Methyl N-Methylanthranilate MNM
Sep 27, 2022
On 8 August 2022, the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) updated the permitted use of Methyl N-Methylanthranilate (MNM) in cosmetic products. In cosmetics, MNM acts as a fragrance. It is used in fin...
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