From FlexNews: Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA has been working since 2007 on a comprehensive evaluation of flavouring substances currently in use in the European Union. Flavourings are divided into 48 chemical groups and EFSA is evaluating each group separately, focusing on the implications of individual flavourings for human health. Since EFSA’s […]
More on the CPSC Reform Act we discussed last week. This from InjuryBoard.com: Both the United States Senate and House of Representatives voted to pass a bill that provides for the reauthorization of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The bill includes many safety protections, including ATV (all-terrain vehicle) standards, whistleblower protection for employees of […]
The San Francisco Chronicle on a potential new law for workplace exposure limits in California: An Assembly leader is pledging a down-to-the-wire fight for legislation that would require the state to adopt worker exposure standards for all known cancer-causing chemicals. Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Sally Lieber says the measure is needed because a state board […]
From the OEHHA: The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) of the California Environmental Protection Agency is adding gallium arsenide to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer and hexafluoroacetone, nitrous oxide and vinyl cyclohexene dioxide to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity for […]
The Guardian has a fairly standard article on the burden REACH is placing on companies. One interesting discussion is the number of pre-registrations that have been sent in: Dancet’s agency has around 200 staff and aims to add an additional 50 before the year end to handle the flurry of enquiries and pre-registrations that will […]
From the OEHHA: On June 27, 2008, OEHHA published a notice in the California Regulatory Notice Register (Register 08, No. 26-Z) announcing its intent to list molinate under Proposition 65 as a chemical known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity in accordance with the regulatory criteria in section 25306 of Title 27 of the […]
From the EPA – National Emission Standards for Organic Hazardous Air Pollutants From the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry for Process Vents, Storage Vessels, Transfer Operations, and Wastewater; and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Manufacturing On November 10, 2003, EPA promulgated national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for […]
Some of the proposed amendments, from the Canada Gazette: The following changes are proposed to implement the comments and recommendations of the SJCSR: * a discrepancy was identified in the French and English versions of the FHR 2003 in the definition of “small refrigeration system” and the use of this definition in section 16. Both […]
From the Canada Gazette: Part I of the Non-domestic Substances List (see footnote 1) is amended by deleting the following: 57843-53-5 68016-13-7 Click on the above link for more information.
From the OEHHA: On June 27, 2008, OEHHA published two separate notices in the California Regulatory Notice Register (Register 08 No. 26-Z) soliciting information which may be relevant to the evaluation of imazalil and thiabendazole and its hypophosphite salt under consideration for possible listing within the context of the Proposition 65 administrative listing regulatory criteria […]