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Oct 06, 2022 | South Korea provides a guideline for preparing for biocidal product approval submissions
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...
Oct 04, 2022 | California lawmakers pass legislation to ban PFAS for cosmetic products
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 (per-...
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 und...
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 measureme...
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...
India sets migration limits for antimony and DEHP for FCM
Sep 27, 2022
On 31 August 2022 a regulation entitled “Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Second Amendment Regulations, 2022.” was published and enforced by The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSA...
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...
UK consults on potential restrictions for substances in tattoo inks and permanent make-up
Sep 23, 2022
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE), as the implementing agency for UK REACH, is currently consulting on different potential options for a UK REACH restriction on substances to be used in tattoo...
China consults on draft Cosmetic Safety and Techinical Standards
Sep 23, 2022
On 2nd Sep. 2022, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control of China (NIFDC) published a notification calling for public and indutry opinions on draft new China Cosmetic Safety and Techinical Stan...
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