At the end of March, the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW), and the Ministry of Environment (MoE) published an up-to-date current list of the classifications of 3,281 chemicals, some of which had been classified multiple times in previous years. Japan…
Malaysia plans to align its classification and labeling of chemicals and the content of safety data sheets (SDS) with the provisions of the eighth revision of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals. The Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) published the proposal (only in…
Kenya, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Nigeria want to introduce the Global Harmonized System (GHS) of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals in their territory to improve their chemicals management. They have begun a pilot project in which each country works with various partners, including the EU, the International Council of Chemical…
Companies that import hazardous chemicals into Taiwan, use them in Taiwan, or supply them to others in the country must comply with updated reporting requirements after April 1, 2022. For the currently 1,148 priority management chemicals (PMCs), the following will apply: New classification categories New concentration threshold values New tonnage…
In September, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) published the online version of the new GHS requirements (GHS Rev.9). The only change from the previous version (GHS Rev.8) is the chapter on explosives. The remaining content remains essentially the same. A committee of GHS experts regularly revises the…
