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Oct 21, 2021 | US EPA Releases A Comprehensive Roadmap For PFAs
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...
Oct 20, 2021 | New Turkish Food Codex Maximum of Pesticides Residual Limits Regulation is Published!
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 substance...
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 database is aimed at helpin...
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 substa...
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 Classification...
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...
South Korea simplifies K-REACH data submission for duplicate data requirements
Sep 24, 2021
The Ministry of Environment (MoE) in South Korea updated K-REACH to simplify data submission for duplicate data requirements. According to K-REACH enforcement rule article 36, chemical substance sa...
Mexico bans cosmetics animal testing
Sep 03, 2021
On the 2nd of September 2021, the Chamber of Senators in Mexico passed the bill to prohibit the use of animals for cosmetics testing. The bill stipulates that cosmetic product cannot be manufacture...
Peru Turns Registry for Emissions Pollutants Mandatory
Aug 31, 2021
On July 24, Peru’s Ministry of the Environment (MINAM) published Decree 18/2021. By this Decree, Peru creates the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (RETC by its acronym in Spanish). The new d...
Less than two months left to submit your DUIN under UK REACH
Aug 31, 2021
The 27th October 2021 deadline for submitting a Downstream User Import Notification is approaching fast. As a reminder, your substances are eligible for DUIN if: They are registered under...
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