Scientists under the leadership of Vicki Stone at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have developed a framework for assessing the safety of nanomaterials. They published their results in the December issue of nanotoday. The project, named GRACIOUS (Grouping, Read-Across, CharacterIzation, and classificatiOn framework for regUlatory risk assessment of manufactured nanomaterials and Safer design of nanoenabled products), began at the start of 2018...
The fifteenth adaptation to technical and scientific progress (ATP) of the CLP Regulation was published on August 11 in the Official Journal of the European Union (2020 L 261/2) and takes effect on August 31, 2020. With Regulation 2020/1182, the EU modifies Annex VI, Part 3, of the CLP Regulation 1272/2008. It...
At the beginning of May, the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) published the final version of its regulation on handling with new chemicals. The new MEE Order 12 (Chinese only) replaces MEP Order 7 and takes effect on January 1, 2021. The previous Order remains in force until then. The new...
On December 21, 2018, the Parliament of Taiwan (in Chinese only) agreed to changes to the Toxic Chemicals and Concerned Substances Control Act (TCCSCA). The changes deal with handling chemicals that involved health and safety risks. A total of 75 articles went into effect. According to the Toxic and Chemical…
The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts Lowell has published Advancing Safer Chemicals in Products – The Key Role of Purchasing. The report seeks to sensitize purchasers to greater chemical safety. The authors use six sample cases to show how to accelerate conversion from products that…
