The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued for consultation draft guidance for nanoscale reporting rules. Once this regulation comes into place, it will require only one-time reporting for existing and new nanoscale materials. The guidance, which is ruled out under section 8(a) in the EPA’s Information Gathering Rule on Nanomaterials, answers […]
The Official Journal of the European Commission has been published with the amendments to the regulation of the Classification, labelling and packaging of both substances and mixtures (CLP). The amendments introduce new and revised entries for the harmonized and labelling of 37 substances. These amendments will include a new harmonized toxicity estimates and […]
The National Consumer Product Safety Standardisation Technical Commission of China, has drafted a list of restricted substances that are commonly used in consumer products. Containing many existing Chinese standards, the draft list is based on the EU and other foreign legislation. The consultation period on the substances ended in April of this year. […]
As of June 1, 2017, all chemical products that are on the market must be labelled in accordance with the Classification, Labelling, and Packaging (CLP) Regulation. The CLP Regulation is now the ONLY legislation that applies in the classification and labelling of both substances and mixtures. Companies now must classify, label and package […]
The US state of New York is set to be the first state in the country to require manufacturers of cleaning products to publicly disclose ingredients. New York State is introducing the Household Cleaning Product Information Disclosure programme under a 47-year-old state law. Earlier this week, the Department of Environment Conservation, […]
Canada is intending to publish a risk management for triclosan in November 2018. According to a spokesperson for both Environment and Climate change in Canada, a final instrument is expected by May 2020. The newly revised version will incorporate the comments that were released in November of 2016. Canada let a risk assessment […]
Employers in the United States must continue to comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), despite the delays in the enforcement dates due to the recent Trump administration. Last week, the administration announced the delay of its silica standard because of the need to provide additional guidance to silica’s […]
Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) has had wide-range of revisions to the country’s Toxic Chemical and Substances Control Act (TCSCA). Some of the Key changes include: – A proposed establishment of a national chemical regulation advisory reporting system, which would coordinate the roles of various central and local government agencies. – […]
The United States has announced the extension of a 30-day comment period for two proposed TSCA section 6 rules. The deadline for commenting agency’s proposals to ban trichloroethylene (TCE), which is found in vapour degreasing and to restrict and prohibit methylene chloride and N-methylpyrrolidone in paint stripping is now the May 19. […]
Canada has added 15 substances to the DSL. Part one of the Domestic Substances list has been amended by deleting the following: 51447-37-1 N-P 709654-72-8 N-P Part one of the List is adding: 28206-15-7 N-P 51447-37-1 N […]