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Saudi Arabia - GSO Issues a Draft Technical Regulation on Cosmetics and Personal Care Products

Aug 06, 2021 | Saudi Arabia - GSO Issues a Draft Technical Regulation on Cosmetics and Personal Care Products

The Gulf Standardization Organization (GSO), on the 7th of July 2021 issued an update to the draft Gulf Technical Regulation No. GSO 2528/2021 "Cosmetic products – Technical Regulation of cosmetic and...

South Korea updates the chemical substance classification and labelling list

Jul 27, 2021 | South Korea updates the chemical substance classification and labelling list

The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea updated the chemical substance classification and labelling list on July 12th, 2021. This list includes name of chemical subs...

Substance & mixture classification Hazardous chemicals Labelling
South Korea updates the Toxic Chemical Substances List
South Korea updates the Toxic Chemical Substances List
Jul 26, 2021

National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea updated the Toxic Chemical Substances List on June 22nd, 2021.  After the hazard assessment under K-REACH, 13 substances were...

Hazard assessment New substances Labelling Hazardous chemicals
13 Chemicals Added to the BIS Mandatory Certification List
13 Chemicals Added to the BIS Mandatory Certification List
Jul 19, 2021

In April 2021, the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, India, published several orders regarding BIS certification of 13 chemicals (see Table below)....

BIS Product certification Chemical authorisation
ECHA Adds Eight Hazardous Chemicals to the SVHC Candidate List
ECHA Adds Eight Hazardous Chemicals to the SVHC Candidate List
Jul 12, 2021

On July 9th, ECAH added eight chemicals to the Candidate List of SVHC, expanding the list from 211 to 219 entries. These newly added substances are used in consumer products such as cosmetics, sce...

European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) SVHC Hazardous chemicals
Malaysia launches MyEHS, a new website for Hazardous Substance Registration
Malaysia launches MyEHS, a new website for Hazardous Substance Registration
Jul 12, 2021

Department of Environment (DOE) recently announced its new website for Environmentally Hazardous Substances (EHS) Registration. The platform is for gathering information on EHS identified and noti...

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