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Oct 20, 2023 | Malaysia consults on amendments to the Industry Code of Practices
On 6 September 2023, the Malaysian Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) published its proposed amendments to the Industry Code of Practices of Chemicals Classification and Hazard Commun...
Oct 20, 2023 | US EPA Expands Safer Chemicals Ingredient List with Inclusion of Ten New Substances
On September 29, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expanded the Safer Chemical Ingredients List (SCIL) by adding ten chemicals. The SCIL is a dynamic compilation of chemicals that m...
Maine introduces PFAS ban in food packaging effective May 2026
Oct 19, 2023
Maine law 32 MRS §1733(3-B) requires the Department of Environmental Protection to initiate rulemaking to ban PFAS in food packaging as soon as safer alternatives are available. On April 18, 2024, the...
EPA Unveils New Peer Review approach for Two Solvents under TSCA
Oct 19, 2023
On June 13, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that its Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) will conduct a peer review of two key assessments: the Draft Risk Eva...
EPA Publishes SNAP Rule 26
Oct 19, 2023
On June 13, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule entitled "Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Listing of Substitutes Under the Significant New Alternatives Polic...
Draft circular on GHG inventory and emission reduction published by Vietnam.
Oct 19, 2023
A public consultation on the Draft Circular on Technical Regulations for Measurement, Reporting and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Greenhouse Gas Inventory in the Industry and T...
East African Countries Notifies Alkaline thioglycolic based hair removers to WTO
Oct 19, 2023
On 12 September 2023, five East African countries (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda) notified the World Trade Organisation (WTO) of a Draft East African Standard for alkaline thioglycollic...
Ministry of Food and Drug Safety reviews the pilot project "Cosmetics Electronic Information Provision e-Label”.
Oct 19, 2023
On the 16th of October 2023, the Cosmetics Policy Division of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced that it is considering a pilot project to provide electronic information subject to labelin...
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