Spotlight on Regulatory Updates
What You Need to Know
Formaldehyde is now a known animal carcinogen-ECHA
One of the most basic building blocks in synthetic chemistry, formaldehyde has been determined to be a carcinogen by the ECHA Risk Assessment Committee. The panel of experts recently met to discuss the proposal made by the French Competent Authority to classify Formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen (Carcinogen Category 1A) and as a suspected...
ECHA Candidate list has been updated
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Member State Committee has unanimously agreed to identify six new substances as Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC’s). These six substances are added to the Candidate List for authorisation. The Candidate List now contains 144 substances. The legal obligations that companies may have resulting from the inclusion...
2013 Joint Registrations : How do you Assemble your data
There is just 5 months to go to the Tier 2 registration deadline of May 31st 2013. While most companies who have an obligation to submit a joint registration will be concerned about Letter of access, ECHA and consultant fees, an important task is often overlooked is to prepare an analytical dataset for the substance(s)...
EU Regulations for Ink Printing. What is your legal status?
Switzerland introduced a positive list in 2010 (Swiss ordinance for printing inks SR 817.023.21) of all substances allowed in the manufacturing of printing inks for food contact packaging. The question arose, what is the legal situation of these materials within EU Member States? Up to now, no specific EU harmonised legislation on printing inks for...