On its submission portal, the ECHA has provided two guidelines intended to support importers and downstream users when using its new system-to-system tool. Users can create dossiers in their own software systems and transmit them directly to the ECHA portal. Annex VIII of the CLP Regulation requires downstream users to notify the ECHA about...
In the future, importers who wish to introduce products containing SVHCs must record the presence of such chemicals in customs documents. The EU Commission has required this information since October 1, 2019 for materials contained in the REACH Authorization List (Annex XIV). According to Miquel Aguado-Monsonet of the Directorate- General for Internal Market, Industry,...
In the future, companies that want to register a new substance in China must comply with the newly revised chemicals law, MEP Order 7, and present a Letter of Commitment. The document attests to their legal liability should the chemical cause any sort of damage. The document has two essential functions....
The ECHA wants to make the first version of its substance of concern in products (SCIP) database available to users in October 2020. A prototype will be ready as early as the first quarter of 2020. The Agency made the announcement in Helsinki at the beginning of November as part...
As of April 2020, the ECHA plans to check REACH dossiers with manual and computer-assisted checks. The agency hopes that the new checks will enable it to uncover information gaps more efficiently than it could before. First, the computer-assisted checks should ensure that registrants provide truly complete information about hazard...
The Gulf countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates seek to develop common regulations based on the fifth edition of the GHS. The Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) Standardization Organization (GSO), a standardization organization of the member states and Yemen, has published a draft regulation that the member states can react to until...
Many product suppliers are not informing their customers of the presence of substances of very high concern (SVHCs) in their products, thus violating Article 33 of REACH, which explicitly requires such a notification. That’s the finding of a review undertaken by the Swedish chemicals agency KEMI under the authorship of…
The ECHA has just provided companies with a system-to-system (S2S) tool that simplifies work with dossiers in the IUCLID-compatible PCN format. As an example, companies can now create dossiers in their own software system. Thanks to the new tool, they are then automatically transmitted to the ECHA portal and then redirected to the responsible national agencies. …
The German Federal Environmental Agency has published a study in which the authors examine various ways that the activities of the ECHA can be financed in the future. The trigger for the study was the funding shortfall at the ECHA. How did the shortfall develop? The agency originally assumed that considerably less effort...
Johnson & Johnson (J&J), a U.S. consumer goods company, recalled a batch of baby powder from the market after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found asbestos fibers in a product sample. The FDA did not detect asbestos in another J&J production batch. The FDA discovered the fibers as part of a larger inspection of some...
