In September of this year, the ECHA will release initial information from the SCIP database for consumers, recycling companies, and other interested parties. The ECHA chose this date after it missed the planned start at the end of February because of technical problems. That information is found in the current...
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has issued a report, Chemicals of Concern in the Building and Construction Sector, that recommends avoiding the use in the construction sector of chemicals that have been proven to be health risks. Large quantities of these chemicals are used in insulating materials, wood and...
Thailand wants to add ten new substances to the list of dangerous chemicals. The chemicals must be registered with the Department of Industrial Works and require approval and a registration certificate before the companies affected can manufacture or import the chemicals. The chemicals involved are substances with an increased hazard...
On March 29, South Africa published a Regulation for Hazardous Chemical Agents that includes the requirements of GHS Rev.7 (2017). But the requirements apply only to the classification and labeling of chemicals in the industrial sector. The 1995 Occupational Health and Safety Act serves as the basis for the Regulation. For example, point...
The European Chemical Industry Council (Conseil Européen des Fédérations de l'Industrie Chimique: CEFIC) criticized the push of the EU Commission to introduce new hazard classes soon. Chemical Watch quoted the Council as saying “as CEFIC, we see this direction as alarming,” because the step works against plans to establish global, uniform hazard communication. In the past, the...
A third of all warnings are related to toys, and hazardous chemicals are the reason for warning notifications in 18% of all cases. Those are two essential results from the newest Safety Gate Report, published by the EU at the beginning of March. The EU also issued a press release on March 2. ...
As of April 2021, companies operating on the Japanese market can access a new cloud-based online tool, the GHS Mixture Classification and Labelling Creation System (GMICCS) to help classify and label chemicals much more easily and much more quickly. The tool was developed by Japan’s National Institute of Technology and...
The Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) of the Malaysian Ministry for Human Resource has added 393 entries to the list of chemicals classified as hazardous and classified 40 chemicals according to the third revised edition of the GHS. The list is part of the Industry Code of Practice…
The European Chemical Industry Council (Conseil Européen des Fédérations de l’Industrie Chimique: CEFIC) has published a report on the status of GHS implementations in a total of 79 countries and regions. In the foreword to the report, the association calls the Globally Harmonized System of Classification, Labelling and Packaging of...
By the middle of the year, the EU Commission wants to update Annex II of REACH (Guide to the Compilation of Safety Data Sheets, SDSs), aligning the requirements for SDSs with the sixth and seventh revised editions of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS). The European Parliament and Council of Ministers are currently examining the draft...
