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Aug 10, 2021 | Vietnam publishes a draft amendment to Decree No. 113/2017/ND-CP

On July 9, 2021, the General Department of Chemicals of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) of Vietnam published a draft decree to amend Decree No. 113/2017/ND-CP regarding the Law on Chemic...

GHS Vietnam POPs Restricted use
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Feb 04, 2022 | BIS extends the implementation date of Acetic acid Menthanol Aniline and Morpholine

On January 31, 2022, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) released a Gazette notification for Extension in the Implementation date of Chemicals under mandatory certification Scheme I. The chemica...

India BIS Product registration/notification
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Updated Enforcement Rule of The Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides Safety Control Act K-BPR came into effect
Feb 04, 2022

Updated Enforcement Rule of The Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides Safety Control Act (K-BPR) came into effect on December 31st, 2021.This updated Enforcement Rule reflects matters mandated by ...

Biocides K-BPR Human health exposure
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Malaysia launches MyEHS for hazardous substance registration
Apr 30, 2021

The Department of Environment (DOE) in the Ministry of Environment and Water, Malaysia launched a new website in April 2021. This new website called ‘MyEHS’ was launched after the department clo...

Active registration/ notification Chemical notification/ registration Malaysia
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ECHA considers adding eight new substances to the Authorisation list
Feb 03, 2022

ECHA regularly recommends substances from the Candidate List to be included in the Authorisation List (Annex XIV to REACH), based on the information in the registration dossiers on uses and volumes ...

Chemical authorisation EU REACH ECHA
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South Korea distributes a guide for serious civic accidents caused by raw materials under SAPA
Jan 27, 2022

The Ministry of Environment (MoE) in South Korea published and distributed a guide to serious civic accidents caused by raw materials and products under the Serious Accidents Punishment Act (SAPA). ...

K-REACH Regulatory update Major accident hazard & risk
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Consultation: Canada deliberate on adding Competency Based Training for Dangerous Goods’ Transportation Rules
Jan 26, 2022

Transport Canada (TC) recently opened a discussion to revise Part 6 of the Transportation of Dangerous Products (TDG) and set new training requirements.  Published in the Canada Gazette Part 1 on...

Hazardous chemicals Chemical Industry Ecotoxicology
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Acceptance of VOC regulations for consumer goods in Canada
Jan 26, 2022

Canada has embraced Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) directions for certain customer and commercial products, setting up the most extreme concentration...

Solvent/VOC emissions import/export restrictions Personal care.
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NMPA publishes good manufacturing practice ‘specifications’ for cosmetics
Jan 21, 2022

Based on the China cosmetic regulation (Cosmetics Supervision and Administration Regulation, CSAR), the National Medical and Pharmaceutical Agency (NMPA) published the good manufacturing practice &lsq...

Cosmetic products CSAR
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MEE adds 11 chemicals to IECSC
Jan 21, 2022

On 22nd December 2021, the Ministry of Environment and Ecology announced that 11 chemical substances will be added to the Inventory of Existing Chemical Substance list (IECSC) of China. For chemica...

Chemical inventory IECSC Compliance strategy
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ECHA: Four hazardous chemicals added to the Candidate List
Jan 21, 2022

The Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) now contains 223 entries. On 17th January 2022, ECHA added four hazardous chemicals that are commonly used in cosmetics to the candidate li...

EU-REACH Chemical Category SVHC

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