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United Kingdom - Key Regulatory Insights 2024

Feb 14, 2025 | United Kingdom - Key Regulatory Insights 2024

The UK Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals (UK-REACH) serves as the legal framework for regulating chemicals in Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) following...

CMRs Mandatory Classification and labelling MCL UK-REACH Alternative Transitional Registration Model ATRm
EU - Key Regulatory Insights 2024

Feb 14, 2025 | EU - Key Regulatory Insights 2024

The Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation, Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, is the legal framework for the regulation of chemicals in the European Union...

CLP ECHA CHEM EU REACH Ozone depleting substance ODS PFAS SVHC Candidate List Poison Centre Notifications PCNs
Japan proposes to amend the Priority Assessment Chemical Substances List 
Japan proposes to amend the Priority Assessment Chemical Substances List 
Feb 14, 2025

On 12 February 2025, Japan’s Ministry of Environment (MoE), together with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) released a joint draf...

CSCL Database METI MHLW Ministry of Environment MOE Japan update Priority Assessment Chemical Substances PACS
Thailand Reviews Hazardous Substances Act Following Stakeholder Consultation
Thailand Reviews Hazardous Substances Act Following Stakeholder Consultation
Feb 13, 2025

The Department of Industrial Works (DIW) has released an evaluation of Thailand’s Hazardous Substances Act, following an extensive public consultation held between August and September 2024. The revie...

Public Consultation Thailand Hazardous Substances Act Department of Industrial Works DIW Regulatory Review
PPWR Enters into Force: ECHA Takes on New Role in Packaging Safety
PPWR Enters into Force: ECHA Takes on New Role in Packaging Safety
Feb 12, 2025

On 11 February 2025, the European Union’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) officially entered into force, introducing stricter requirements to reduce packaging waste, improve recyclabil...

Circular Economy European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Sustainability Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation PPWR Enters into Force Hazardous Substances in Packaging
Brazil: Anvisa updates toxicological evaluation guides for pesticides
Brazil: Anvisa updates toxicological evaluation guides for pesticides
Feb 12, 2025

The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) has revised its pesticide evaluation guidance for mutagenicity, carcinogenesis, neurotoxicity, and reproductive toxicity.   Purpose of the Updated...

CMRs Pesticide Regulation Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency ANVISA Pesticide Evaluation Guidelines Neurotoxicity Law 14.785/2023 Toxicological Re-Analysis Public Health

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