In an open letter to the EU Commission, seven companies and the international environmental organization ChemSec call for clear legal requirements for safety data sheets (SDSs). The current legal specifications for mixtures are inadequate to drive appropriate chemicals management, says the letter. Concretely, the companies operating in the most varied…
Sweden and the Netherlands are driving the implementation of a Mixture Assessment Factors (MAF) road map. The MAF contributes to safer evaluation of the risks created by mixtures. The thought behind the MAP is that human beings are exposed to many chemicals, and that the risks arising from exposures at…
A team of scientists from ETH University in Zurich analyzed 22 chemical inventories from 19 countries and regions and discovered that around 350,000 chemicals and chemical mixtures have been registered around the world – three times more than originally estimated. The leader of the study, Zhanyun Wang, presented the results…