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200 compounds are classified as "Category 1" carcinogens in Japan

Feb 17, 2023 | 200 compounds are classified as "Category 1" carcinogens in Japan

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has classified 200 substances under Category 1 for carcinogenicity. The announcement was made on 26 December 2022, under an amendment to the Indus...

Chemical inventory ISHL MHLW
The European Commission has published its 2050 digital and green goals.

Feb 16, 2023 | The European Commission has published its 2050 digital and green goals.

A comprehensive plan that outlines more than 150 steps to assist business and government agencies in achieving the Green Deal and digital targets by 2050 has been released by the European Commission i...

EU REACH Green & sustainable chemistry
UK chemical strategy - insights
UK chemical strategy - insights
Feb 16, 2023

The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will publish its chemicals strategy later this year (no date announced). The UK's chemicals strategy is intended to replace the EU's REACH (Re...

Safer alternatives UK-REACH Hazardous chemicals Compliance strategy
Taiwan updates the RoHS requirements to include UV disinfection equipment
Taiwan updates the RoHS requirements to include UV disinfection equipment
Feb 16, 2023

In 2013 voluntary national standard, CNS 15663 Guidance to Reduce the Use of Restricted Chemical Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE), was released by the Taiwanese Bureau of Standa...

Electrical & electronics Lead Mercury
South Korea publishes the Guidelines for the Approval of Natural Biocidal Compounds
South Korea publishes the Guidelines for the Approval of Natural Biocidal Compounds
Feb 15, 2023

The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea publishes the Guidelines for the Approval of Natural Biocidal Compounds in December 2022. In accordance with the enforcement of t...

Biocides K-BPR
South Korea publishes the Guidelines for the Approval of Biocidal Polymers
South Korea publishes the Guidelines for the Approval of Biocidal Polymers
Feb 15, 2023

The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea publishes the Guidelines for the Approval of Biocidal Polymers in December 2022. In accordance with the enforcement of the Consum...

Biocides K-BPR

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