As part of the fourteenth adaptation to technical progress (ATP), the EU Commission published Amendment 2020/217 to the CLP Regulation. The new Regulation takes effect on March 9. The new Regulation states that as of September 9, 2021, packaging for titanium dioxide in powered form and packaging of titanium dioxide powder...
On January 29, the European Parliament voted against the motion of the European Conservatives and Reformists' (ECR) party. The vote was clear: Only 177 supported the measure, 434 opposed it, and 39 abstained. The ECR objection was a last-minute attempt to block the classification of titanium dioxide as possibly carcinogenic. The scrutiny...
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...