„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...
Working safely with persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is the highest priority in South Korea. As part of its national plan that runs from 2021 to 2025, South Korea wants to classify chemicals on the list of the Stockholm Convention (POP Convention) as “priority control substances” in K-REACH. The move subjects...
The Russian Ministry for Industry and Trade (Minpromtorg) has published the final version of its chemical inventory (Russian only). The list contains some 80,000 chemicals. The list is to be integrated into the register of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), whose members includeArmenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. The goal...
Since the start of the year, Regulation (EU) 2020/878 has been in effect, which modifies Annex II of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH). Annex II defines the requirements for the creation of an SDS. The changes affect the content and format of an SDS. The new Regulation has two principal...
Regulation (EU) 2019/1148 has been in effect since the beginning of February to regulate the marketing and use of explosives precursors. The new regulation replaces Regulation (EU) No. 98/2013 that was originally issued to prevent terrorist attacks more effectively. In response to the terror attacks in Paris in November...
As of January 4, manufacturers and importers must notify the ECHA when they want to market products containing substances of very high concern (SVHC) in a concentration greater than or equal to 0.1% by weight. Such notifications are required by Article 9, Section 1, Letter i of the EU Waste...
With the expiration of the deadline on December 31, 2020, the time allotted to British companies to transfer some 2,900 REACH registrations to European firms has passed. That number represents one fifth of the REACH registrations that were owned by British companies. According to the ECHA, this number could...
In December 2020, the ECHA Enforcement Forum published the closing report of the REACH En-Force 7 (REF-7) project. As part of the project, national authorities and customs agencies inspected a total of 813 companies in 28 countries. The inspectors found that 180 of the 1,420 chemicals examined are not registered...
Sweden and the Netherlands are driving the implementation of a Mixture Assessment Factors (MAF) road map. The MAF contributes to safer evaluation of the risks created by mixtures. The thought behind the MAP is that human beings are exposed to many chemicals, and that the risks arising from exposures at…
At the end of November, South Korea’s Ministry of Employment and Labor (MoEL) published a list of 253 chemicals (only in Korean) that were manufactured or imported for the first time in 2020. The list includes the names of the compounds, their hazard and risk classifications, the quantity manufactured or...
In the future, the EU will require a chemical safety assessment (CSA) followed by the creation of a chemical safety report (CSR) for carcinogenic, mutagenic, and reprotoxic substances (CMRs) in tonnage bands of 1–10 tons per year. Accordingly, the EU plans to modify Article 14 of REACH along with the...
