A google translate into English of the draft of NOM-232-SSA1-200 is available here: Draft Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-232-SSA1-2006, Pesticides: laying down the requirements of packaging and labelling of products for use in agriculture, forestry, livestock, gardening, urban, industrial and domestic. This project is published so that interested parties, within 60 calendar days from the date […]
From Drugs and Health Products: Updated Monograph – Garlic Updated Monograph – Devil’s Claw Updated Monograph – Lungwort
From Chemistry World on some REACH growing pains: The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), which is responsible for running the European Union’s new Reach scheme to regulate the production and use of chemicals, is still struggling to put its IT system fully into operation more than two weeks after the start of the project’s pre-registration period. […]
A piece from the Heartland Institute: The California state Senate has passed and sent to the Assembly a bill to ban the use of food packaging containing perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). Senate Bill 1313 would ban persons and companies from manufacturing, selling, or distributing any food contact substance containing PFOS, PFOA, higher […]
From FoodProductionDaily: The European Chemicals Bureau (ECB) said that there is no risk to consumers from using packaging containing Bisphenol A (BPA), which follows similar findings from TNO last month… It is permitted for use in food contact materials in the EU, under Commission Directive 2002/72/EC… “We found that the margin of safety is high […]
It appears that major revisions will be made to Bill C-51: Food and Drugs Act. An article from the Vancouver Sun explains: In a surprising about-face, Health Minister Tony Clement has agreed to key demands of the natural health products industry after the sector launched a grassroots campaign against restrictions on homeopathic medicines and herbal […]
Article from Canada’s National Post: Twenty-one of 26 samples tested at Health Canada’s product safety laboratories contained lead levels of 0.079 parts per million to 0.84 parts per million… One lipstick sample had 6.3 parts per million, while the remainder contained no detectable levels of lead… In the U.S. tests, the highest lead content found […]
From the NHPD – newly updated monographs: Updated Monograph – Birch Updated Monograph – Thuja More information can be found on the above links.
From the OEHHA: The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) within the California Environmental Protection Agency is adding dibromoacetic acid (CAS No. 631-64-1) to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer for purposes of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Health and Safety Code section 25249.5 […]
From the Canadian Press: Environment Minister John Gerretsen says Ontario’s proposed pesticide ban seeks to look at the “cumulative effects” of chemicals like 2,4-D. He says the federal government looks at such chemicals on a “product-by-product” basis. The provincial government has put forward a list of 80 chemicals and 300 products that will be part […]