ANSI is hosting a conference in Baltimore, MD that we are sure many of our clients would be interested in. We have been hearing a great deal of anxiety about the potential impact of GHS and REACH regulations: Global manufacturers are facing increasing pressure to balance the economic and societal impact of domestic and foreign […]
Bondo Corp. has been successful in preventing a Prop 65 warning being placed on some of their products: A state appeals court in San Francisco today rejected a Bay area man’s legal bid to force a manufacturer to label automobile touch-up paint with a warning of alleged chemical hazards. The court upheld an Alameda County […]
New allowable limits for the use of boron in oral natural health products: Health Canada has set a maximum limit of 0.7 mg of elemental boron equivalents per daily dose for boron as a trace mineral as part of an “Adults only” multivitamin-multimineral natural health product. In cases where boron is included as one medicinal […]
The July 2007 NHPD Monthly Communiqué includes the following of interest to many of our clients: Product Licensing Information Updated Guidelines – How to Reclassify a Product Licence Application into the Compendial or Non-compendial stream The Natural Health Products Directorate (NHPD) has recently revised its guidelines and procedures for applicants wishing to reclassify a product […]
The Business Journal on an EU ban of a popular weed killer: A European Union court has banned a chemical used as a common weed killer, based on claims the substance does not meet health standards, according to a report by the Associated Press. The chemical paraquat is the primary ingredient in one of the […]
An article from the Orange County Business Journal on the likely addition of Methanol to California’s Prop 65 list: Companies in coatings, automotive and adhesives are bracing for yet another listing of a popular solvent as hazardous. State regulators are close to listing solvent methanol as a hazardous chemical under the state’s Proposition 65 law, […]
A recent bulletin from the EPA: Nanoscale Program Approach for Comment which includes the following information: To ensure stakeholder involvement in the development of the Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program, EPA has issued Federal Register (FR) notices seeking public comment on a concept paper and other materials connected to this program… On October 18, 2006, EPA […]
Forbes discusses the cost of REACH compliance to Russian business in Russia ‘forced’ to apply costly EU chemical standards: Russia will be ‘forced’ to apply EU safety standards in the chemical industry, which will cost Russian companies up to 10 percent of their export earnings, Russian officials said. The Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of […]
An article in the Boston Globe by William D. Ruckelshaus, who served as the EPA’s first administrator from 1970-1973 and again from 1983-1985 and J. Clarence Davies a senior adviser at the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies and Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future: It is time for the EPA to step into the breach […]
A short piece from the Midday Express, Commission wants to align classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals to UN standards, on how the new proposed EU regulations look to align exist regulations, REACH, and GHS into one entity: The European Commission is thinking to align the current EU system of classification of chemical substances and […]