„The only thing constant in life is change" Heraclitus of Ephesus already knew this and this still holds true 2500 years later. Since the beginning of 2020, Infraserv GmbH & Co. Höchst KG is new owner of KFT Chemieservice GmbH. Infraserv Höchst appointed Marcus Rosenberger and Stefan Palla as managing directors of KFT Chemieservice GmbH. As a...
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...
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…
Industry representatives, including the American Chemistry Council (ACC), have criticized the draft guidance published in mid-August by the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE). As part of the period allowed for public comments, which ended on September 6, representatives of the ACC stated that the new requirements for registration…
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...
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