This article is brought to you by Forbes. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced this morning she would resign as head of the agency after the president’s State of the Union Address. Jackson was the first federal official to declare carbon dioxide a pollutant. On Dec. 7 2009, as expectations grew for the Copenhagen Climate […]

This article is brought to you by SpecialChem. A four-days training and information exchange event has been organised  the Joint Research Centre, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (JRC-IHCP) for a delegation of the Chinese regulatory authorities (General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection abynd Quarantine of the People Republic of China – AQSIQ). Both EURL […]

This article is brought to you by Capital Public Radio concerning new “green chemistry” legislation in California. It’s been four years since California legislators passed a law to regulate toxic chemicals in consumer products. The “Green Chemistry” law requires businesses to identify and find alternatives to some chemicals that could be harmful. The final regulations […]

This article is brought to you by SpecialChem concerning the EPA and CPSC efforts towards nanomaterials. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are collaborating in a worldwide research effort to assess any potential impacts of nanomaterials on people’s health and the environment. Nanomaterials appear in many household […]

This press release is brought to you by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today (20 December 2012) launched a six week consultation on changes to chemicals legislation. The consultation sets out how HSE proposes to simplify the regulations without adding new responsibilities or reducing important protection for […]

This press release is brought to you by the ECHA concerning new substances added to the list of “Substances of Very High Concern” (SVHC). With the addition of 54 new SVHCs to the Candidate List, it now contains a total of 138 substances and the target set by Vice-President Tajani and Commissioner Poto?nik to have […]

This press release is brought to you by the ECHA regarding respiratory sensitisers. The Member State Committee identified 23 new SVHCs: 12 through written procedure and 11 at its meeting from 10 to 13 December 2012. For the first time, the MSC identified three respiratory sensitisers, namely diazene-1,2-dicarboxamide (ADCA), hexahydro-2-benzofuran-1,3-dione (HHPA) and hexahydromethylphthalic anhydride (MHHPA) as […]

This Article is brought to you by SpecialChem regarding changing regulations on sunscreen in Australia and New Zealand. NICNAS is consulting on the regulatory impacts on industry, community, and government of the proposed adoption of the revised Australian and New Zealand Sunscreen Standard (AS/NZS 2604: 2012 Sunscreen products – Evaluation and classification) in the Cosmetic […]

This news release is brought to you by Health Canada concerning a joint regulatory review of a product. Health Canada and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine today announced the first simultaneous review and approval of a veterinary drug application under an initiative to better align the approval process for these products. […]

This article is brought to you by Medical Xpress concerning BPA in food packaging. The French parliament voted Thursday to ban the use of bisphenol A, a chemical thought to have a toxic effect on the brain and nervous system, in baby food packaging next year and all food containers in 2015. The chemical, commonly […]