On September 21, the EU Commission published the temporary impact assessment on the revision of the Detergents Regulation (Regulation No. 648/2004) and invited stakeholders to participate in a public consultation, which ends on October 19. A modification is required because theory and practice diverge too markedly in the text of the...
More than every second product examined that is offered on the Scandinavian market does not comply with the requirements of EU chemicals legislation. That is the result of a study in which the chemical agencies of Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Iceland examined 361 different products, including toys, biocides, cosmetics,...
The Food Packaging Forum (FPF) has published a dossier that provides information on the sources, risk evaluations, and legal regulations related to non-intentionally added substances (NIAS). Such substances are chemical compounds that are present in a material (food products, for example) but that were not intentionally added during the production…