The German environmental agency, UBA, has published “Potential SVHC in environment and articles – information collection with the aim to prepare restriction proposals for PFAS on the use and spread of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances”. The report was created in preparation for a restriction proposal under REACH. Two years ago,…
Many product suppliers are not informing their customers of the presence of substances of very high concern (SVHCs) in their products, thus violating Article 33 of REACH, which explicitly requires such a notification. That’s the finding of a review undertaken by the Swedish chemicals agency KEMI under the authorship of…
The Swedish chemicals agency KEMI, examined about 24,000 products that contain hazardous chemicals. Some 2,600 of the products, most of them cleaning products, were found to be labeled incorrectly. In three of every four cases, the labels did not comply with the requirements of the CLP regulation. More than half…
Norwegian and Swedish environmental agencies have criticized the packaging and labeling of car care products that are sold in both countries. The Norwegian study showed that nine of ten imported articles are labeled incorrectly. For example, many of them are inadequately child-proofed. The Norwegians examined a total of 119 articles,…
The French Agency for Food, Environment and Occupational Health and Safety (Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail: ANSES) and the Swedish Chemical Oversight Agency, KEMI, have proposed that the ECHA ban or at least sharply limit skin sensitizers that can be contained in textiles,…
The Swedish chemicals agency KEMI, examined about 24,000 products that contain hazardous chemicals. Some 2,600 of the products, most of them cleaning products, were found to be labeled incorrectly. In three of every four cases, the labels did not comply with the requirements of the CLP regulation. More than half…
Norwegian and Swedish environmental agencies have criticized the packaging and labeling of car care products that are sold in both countries. The Norwegian study showed that nine of ten imported articles are labeled incorrectly. For example, many of them are inadequately child-proofed. The Norwegians examined a total of 119 articles,…
