The European Chemical Industry Council (Conseil Européen des Fédérations de l’Industrie Chimique: CEFIC) analyzed last year’s notification from the Rapid Exchange of Information (RAPEX) system. The Council published the most-important results in a press release in February 2020. According to the document, 92% of chemicals that do not conform to…
Discussions about the development of a platform for trade and the exchange of chemical data is off to a flying start. As part of a landmark conference, EU Chemicals Policy 2030 – Building on the Past, Moving to the Future, held in Brussels at the end of June, representatives of…
The ECHA and the EU Commission plan to screen all data on chemicals in quantities greater than one ton by 2027. That announcement was made by ECHA executive director Björn Hansen at an event sponsored by Chemical Watch held in Brussels at the end of March. That approach is also…
How will the chemicals industry of the future reinvent itself for political decision-makers? That was the question asked at the Copenhagen Institute of Futures Studies (CIFS) as assigned by the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC). The study questioned 195 experts from the chemicals industry and 92 from other industries, science, and…
The ECHA and CEFIC signed a joint statement on June 14 in Helsinki that aims at closer cooperation in the implementation of REACH. In concrete terms, the risks of critical substances and groups of substances are to be estimated on a more scientific basis in the future while communication along…
The governments of European states must protect the high safety standards of REACH from TTIP and continue to improve the quality of authorization dossiers. That’s the challenge defined by Alexander Nies of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und…
The European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) and the German Chemical Industry Association (Verband der Chemischen Industrie: VCI) have jointly developed a method that enables quick and reliable estimation of the dangers posed by mixtures of substances in terms of exposure scenarios. The developers have asked KFT Chemicals Service and others…
