Inspections in 16 EU member states have shown that 23% of imported products fail to meet the requirements of REACH and the CLP Regulation. The ECHA made the announcement in a press release. The inspections were part of a large pilot project of the ECHA Enforcement Forum that began in…
The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), an umbrella organization founded in 2004 has published a report ‘Turning the Plastic Tide’ that contains current data and facts on the problem of plastic. The authors find that if the production of plastic continues as it has, all the efforts of the EU…
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…
