About 20% of slime toys contain migration levels of boron that are too high. That’s the finding of a study made with a project named “Coordinated Activities on the Safety of Products” (CASP). Scientists analyzed a total of 195 samples. In 39 of the samples, they found values higher than…
In a position paper, the European umbrella organization of engineering industries, ORGALIM (Organisme de Liaison des Industries Métalliques Européennes), requests a one-year postponement of the deadline for the reporting requirements related to articles containing SVHC to January 2021. The association represents the interests of about 770,000 companies in mechanical engineering,…
Every child examined was contaminated with perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), and 86% of the 1,109 blood plasma samples taken from children and adolescents between 3 and 17 years old contained perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). Those are the results of an assessment of the representative German environmental study on the health of children…
A team of scientists from ETH University in Zurich analyzed 22 chemical inventories from 19 countries and regions and discovered that around 350,000 chemicals and chemical mixtures have been registered around the world – three times more than originally estimated. The leader of the study, Zhanyun Wang, presented the results…
Johnson & Johnson (J&J), a U.S. consumer goods corporation, will end the sale of talc-based baby powder in the United States and Canada in the coming months. Only the inventory remaining at retail locations should be sold, according to a corporate press release issues on May 19. J&J also announced…
The Serbian environmental ministry is pushing ahead with the requirements for chemical laws and has created a list of chemicals that corresponds to the list in Annex VI of the CLP Regulation – as stated in the 13th adaptation to technical and scientific progress that takes effect in May 2020….
The ECHA is now providing companies with a new online tool, the EU Chemicals Legislation Finder (EUCLEF). An ECHA press release announced the availability of the tool. The initial version covers 40 laws, including regulations for toy safety, the use of certain dangerous chemicals in electric and electronic devices (RoHS),…
The EU wants to include seven additional substances of very high concern (SVHC) in Annex XIV of REACH (Authorization List). As part of the public consultation, active participants and interested parties can comment on the recommendation from March 5 to June 5. The chemicals involved include: Siloxane octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4), decamethylcyclopentasiloxane…
