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…
Companies active in Japan have until May 24, 2022 to align the classification and labeling of chemicals and safety data sheets (SDS) with the most-recent requirements of GHS (Rev. 6). As of that date, all the regulations published by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) apply: Japanese...
More prohibited and restricted chemicals were exported last year than in the previous year. That’s the finding of the current Report on Exports and Imports in 2020 of Chemicals Listed in Annex I to the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Regulation, which the ECHA published in December. According to the report,...
On November 22, the EU published Regulation 2021/2030 to modify Annex XVII of REACH. The Regulation restricts the manufacture, the placement on the market, and the use of dimethylformamide (DMF). One common use of DMF is as a solvent for many polymers. According to REACH, the substance is considered reprotoxic in...
China’s Solid Waste and Chemicals Management Centre (MEE-SCC), a department of the Ministry for Ecology and Environment (MEE), has given companies until October 31 to submit their missing annual reports. The reports are required when companies register new chemicals that are persistent (P), bioaccumulative (B), and toxic (T). They also include information...
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…
Since mid-September, consumers and waste disposers can access the data in the SCIP database to learn about hazardous materials in products. The ECHA issued a press release on the availability of access. According to the ECHA, about 6,000 companies have made 17 million submissions to SCIP. As of September 2021, the...
Scheduled to last five years and supported by €11.6 million, EU Project ZeroPM (Zero Pollution of Persistent, Mobile Substances) is to bring together many well-known scientists. Under the direction of Dr. Sarah Hale and Prof. Hans Peter Arp of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, the project’s members are to work at various levels –...
Japan wants to improve work safety when dealing with chemicals and is considering modifications of its Health and Safety Law. The measures being planned are based on a report, How to Manage Chemicals in the Workplace (in Japanese only), published by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW)…
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