As of 2022, compliance authorities and customs inspectors across the EU will work within the context of a new EU enforcement project to determine if companies are meeting their notification obligations for hazardous mixtures as defined in Article 45 of the CLP Regulation. The ECHA Enforcement Forum made that decision...
In its meeting at the beginning of October, the Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) of the ECHA approved the classification of methyl methacrylate (MMA) as a respiratory sensitizer of Category 1 and enhanced the table entry for BPA in Annex VI of the CLP to include the property of “acute and...
The EU plans to modify Annexes VII–XI that define the standard information requirements for substances manufactured or imported in quantities of 1 ton or more (Annex VII), 10 tons or more (Annex VIII), 100 tons or more (Annex IX), 1,000 tons or more (Annex X). Annex XI contains general rules...
In mid-October, the EU Commission approved its Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability Towards a Toxic-Free Environment and issued a related press release. The contents of the strategy are an important building block of the European Green Deal. The most important measures planned include the following: Banning the most-harmful chemicals in consumer products, including endocrine disruptors and chemicals that impair the immune system and...
At the end of October, the ECHA will go live for companies with its SCIP database. Enterprises can then enter reporting data on substances of very high concern (SVHC) into the database. Manufacturers and importers are mandated to provide such reports for products that they wish to market after January 5, 2021...
As the first state in the United States to do so, California has prohibited as of 2025 the manufacture and sale of cosmetics that contain certain hazardous chemicals. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the new law (AB 2762) on September 30. The ban covers the following chemicals and chemical groups, all of...
Scientists under the leadership of Vicki Stone at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have developed a framework for assessing the safety of nanomaterials. They published their results in the December issue of nanotoday. The project, named GRACIOUS (Grouping, Read-Across, CharacterIzation, and classificatiOn framework for regUlatory risk assessment of manufactured nanomaterials and Safer design of nanoenabled products), began at the start of 2018...
Determination of concentrations of bis(4-chlorophenyl) sulfone (BCPS: CAS No. 80-07-9) in fish and cormorants shows that the chemical has rapidly accumulated along the food chain. That’s the finding of scientists from the Austrian Federal Environment Agency. The detailed results will bepublished in January 2021 in Chemosphere. Throughout the EU, BCPS is manufactured or...
EU member states have agreed upon deadlines for the updating of registration dossiers and approved a draft. The corresponding implementing regulation should be published this year. Article 22, Section 1, Letters a-i of REACH define the cases in which registration dossiers must be updated. Depending on the effort involved for an update, the legislation grants...
The fifteenth adaptation to technical and scientific progress (ATP) of the CLP Regulation was published on August 11 in the Official Journal of the European Union (2020 L 261/2) and takes effect on August 31, 2020. With Regulation 2020/1182, the EU modifies Annex VI, Part 3, of the CLP Regulation 1272/2008. It...
