Industry representatives, including the American Chemistry Council (ACC), have criticized the draft guidance published in mid-August by the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE).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…
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…
