The EU Commission has revised Annexes I–VI of the CLP Regulation in light of the latest classification and labeling criteria found in the Globally Harmonized System (GHS). The revision aligns CLP with the sixth and seventh versions of GHS. Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/521 of March 27, 2019 establishes a new…
On February 11, the Canadian government published the Canadian GHS in the Canada Gazette, Part 2. The goal is to align the contents of the existing Canadian regulations about classification, labelling and about creating safety data sheets from 1988 step by step with the American Hazard Communication Standard (2012) now…
The Asia-Pacific Economic Co-Operation (APEC) community, representing 21 nations and almost half the world’s population, has advised its members to adopt the GHS 7th revision uniformly by the end of 2021 to harmonize its requirements across member states. The goal of the community is to simplify trade in one of…
The EU Commission has revised Annexes I–VI of the CLP Regulation in light of the latest classification and labeling criteria found in the Globally Harmonized System (GHS). The revision aligns CLP with the sixth and seventh versions of GHS. Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/521 of March 27, 2019 establishes a new…
The EU Commission will examine whether endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can be included in the existing international system for classification of chemicals (GHS). That’s the content of a Communication of the Commission (see the fourth bullet on page 12). With the inclusion, the EU wants to create a globally uniform solution…
The Chilean environmental and health ministries have approved a draft regulation for the classification, labeling, and notification of chemicals and mixtures. The approval implements the UN’s Global Harmonized System (GHS) and creates a transition period to align labeling and safety data sheets with the UN system. The announcement on October 26…
As of October 9, chemicals in Mexico must be classified and labeled according to uniform criteria, those of GHS Revision 5. In October 2015, the Mexican Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS) published regulations (NOM-018-STPS-2015, only in Spanish) that gave the chemicals industry a three-year transition period, which just…
The Columbian Labor Ministry is looking toward mandatory implementation of the sixth edition of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for the classification and labeling of chemicals. It issued a decree to that effect on August 6. The implementation is the result of Columbia’s entry into the Organization for Economic Co-operation…
The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has made the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) mandatory for member states and prospective members. The implications of the decision are limited, said Bob Diderichs, director of the OECD’s environmental division, in a conversation with ChemicalWatch, given…
