Trichloroethylene (TCE); Regulation Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
Distribution date: 02 November 2023 | Final date for Comment: 15 December 2023
Proposed rule - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to address the unreasonable risk of injury to human health presented by trichloroethylene (TCE) under its conditions of use as documented in EPA's November 2020 Risk Evaluation f
Products Covered: Trichloroethylene; Environmental protection (ICS code(s): 13.020); Production in the chemical industry (ICS code(s): 71.020); Products of the chemical industry (ICS code(s): 71.100)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Receipt of Several Pesticide Petitions Filed for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities. Notice of filing of petitions and request for comment
Distribution date: 02 November 2023 | Final date for Comment: 27 November 2023
This document announces the Agency's receipt of several initial filings of pesticide petitions requesting the establishment or modification of regulations for residues of pesticide chemicals in or on various commodities.
Products Covered: Multiple commodities
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Changes to Reporting Requirements for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and to Supplier Notifications for Chemicals of Special Concern; Community Right-to-Know Toxic Chemical Release Reporting
Distribution date: 01 November 2023 | Final date for Comment: 01 March 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) subject to reporting under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (
Products Covered: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); Environmental protection (ICS code(s): 13.020); Production in the chemical industry (ICS code(s): 71.020); Products of the chemical industry (ICS code(s): 71.100)
Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification
Procedures for Chemical Risk Evaluation Under the Amended Toxic Substances Control Act (35 pages, in English).
Distribution date: 01 November 2023 | Final date for Comment: 14 December 2023
Proposed rule - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, “the Agency”) is proposing to amend the procedural framework rule for conducting
Products Covered: Chemical substances; Environment and environmental protection in general (ICS code(s): 13.020.01); Production in the chemical industry (ICS code(s): 71.020); Products of the chemical industry (ICS code(s): 71.100)
Regulation Type: Revision to Regular Notification
Draft partial amendment of the Enforcement Rule of the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemical Substances. (5 pages, in Korean)
Distribution date: 31 October 2023 | Final date for Comment: 30 December 2023
For the chemical substances under Article 11(1) of the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemical Substances (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) that it is allowed to waive some of the data required for chemical registration in accordance with A
Products Covered: New chemical substance and existing chemical substances
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Draft partial amendment of the Enforcement Decree of the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemical Substances.
Distribution date: 31 October 2023 | Final date for Comment: 30 December 2023
Currently, registration obligation under Article 10 of the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemical Substances is applied even to the chemical substances that are manufactured by recycling wastes. However, in the EU where operates a chemical regi
Products Covered: New chemical substance and existing chemical substances
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Draft Ordinance of the Federal Office for the Environment concerning amendments to annexes 1.17, 2.16, and 2.18 of the Ordinance on the Reduction of Risks relating to the Use of Certain Particularly Dangerous Substances, Preparations and Articles (Chem
Distribution date: 31 October 2023 | Final date for Comment: 30 December 2023
Description of content: The draft Regulation aims at amending Annex 1.17 of the ORRChem. The draft proposes to include five additional substances in that Annex, namely:Tetraethyllead;4,4'-bis(dimethylamino)-4''-(methylamino)trityl
Products Covered: Products of the chemical industry (ICS code(s): 71.100); chemical substances
Regulation Type: Regular notification
The Cosmetic Products (Restriction of Chemical Substances) Regulations 2024
Distribution date: 27 October 2023 | Final date for Comment: 26 December 2023
These measures will amend the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009 as applicable in GB (“the Cosmetics Regulations”) as they apply in [England, Wales and Scotland]. They will amend permitted levels of certain chemicals in the Cosmetics Regulations.
Products Covered: Cosmetics products are defined by Article 2(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009. ESSENTIAL OILS AND RESINOIDS; PERFUMERY, COSMETIC OR TOILET PREPARATIONS (HS code(s): 33); Cosmetics. Toiletries (ICS code(s): 71.100.70)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Identity and quality requirements for hamburgers
Distribution date: 27 October 2023 | Final date for Comment: 01 March 2025
MAPA/SDA Ordinance No. 724, 23 December 2022 that approves technical regulation on the identity and quality requirements for hamburgers, notified as G/TBT/N/BRA/1275/Add.1 was amended by MAPA/SDA Ordinance No. 916, 20 October 2023.
Products Covered: Prepared or preserved meat or offal of bovine animals (excl. sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight of
Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification
Partial amendment to the Minimum Requirements for Biological ProductsPartial amendment to The Public Notice on National Release Testing.
Distribution date: 27 October 2023 | Final date for Comment: 26 November 2023
The Minimum Requirements for Biological Products will be amended as follows: The standard for “Frozen Human Red Blood Cells” that is to be newly approved will be added. And regarding the standard for “Recombinant Respiratory Syncytial virus V
Products Covered: Pharmaceutical products (HS: 30)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
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