From environmental leader:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added more than 6,300 chemicals and 3,800 chemical facilities regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to a public database called Envirofacts.

As part of the agency’s policy to increase public access to information on chemicals, the Envirofacts database offers a single point of access on the Internet for information about environmental activities that may impact air, water and land in the U.S. It also provides tools for analyzing the data.

The database also provides detailed information about chemical facilities including  facility name and address information, aerial image of the facility and surrounding area, map location of the facility, and links to other EPA information on the facility, such as the agency’s inspection and compliance reports that are available through the Enforcement Compliance History Online (ECHO) database. EPA is also adding historic facility information for another 2,500 facilities.

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Recallled May 17th

• Gun Oil
• Solvent and Degreaser
• Carbon Remover
• Bore Polish
• 4-Step Gun Cleaner

Health Canada has established that the gun care products do not meet the mandatory packaging and labelling requirements, as required under Canadian law.

The product lacks the symbols and warnings required for consumer chemicals.

If you have any doubts about the compliancy of your chemical products, please do not hesitate to contact us. More information about our label review services can be found here:

• Canadian Consumer Label Review
• Canadian Industrial Label Review
• Canadian Cosmetic Product Label Review

We can be contacted at:
Nexreg Toll Free: 1-866-361-3032
E-mail:info@nexreg.com

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From the Bureau Veritas Group:

Minnesota has become the first state to finalize a law for cadmium in children’s jewelry. This law comes after the Associated Press released reports of cadmium-laden children’s jewelry and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voluntarily recalled several children’s jewelry products. The requirements will become effective for manufacturers and wholesalers as of January 1, 2011 and for retailers as of March 1, 2011. The Minnesota Attorney General’s office will enforce the requirements of this new law.

- Limit:

• Shall not exceed 75 ppm of soluble cadmium
• Tested according to heavy metals test method defined in ASTM F963

For definitions, scope, and exemptions of this new law click the link above.

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From the Bureau Veritas Group:

Based on a new assessment by the National Food Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Food), the Danish government has decided to invoke the principle of precaution and introduce a temporary national ban on Bisphenol A (BPA) in materials that are in contact with food for children aged 0-3 years of age. Effective as of 1 July 2010, BPA is not allowed in Denmark in products covered by the ban. Other European countries, such as France, are also considering a complete ban of the substance.

Follow the above link for more information.

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From Marketwire:

Health Canada is advising consumers that high levels of lead continue to be found in a wide variety of children’s jewellery products sold in Canada. Children can ingest harmful amounts of lead when they chew, suck or swallow jewellery items containing lead, as lead is very toxic to children even at low exposure levels. Simply wearing a jewellery item with lead does not present a serious risk to health because there is minimal lead absorption through the skin. In addition to lead, Health Canada is also concerned that cadmium, which is a carcinogen, may be increasingly substituted for lead in inexpensive children’s jewellery.

For more consumer information on this issue follow the link above.

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From the Bureau Veritas Group:

The Governor of Maryland signed into law a bill banning the flame retardant Decabrominated Diphenyl Ether (DecaBDE) from products manufactured or sold in the state. As of December 31, 2010, the manufacturing, leasing, or selling of mattresses, residential upholstered furniture, and electrical equipment containing DecaBDE is prohibited. The ban is extended to all products, with some exceptions, as of December 31, 2012, and those exceptions are phased out by December 31, 2013. The law does not ban selling, leasing, or recycling of used products, products that contain recycled DecaBDE, or products in retail inventory prior to being banned by the law.

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From canada.com:

Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq is making changes to the government’s product safety bill after chastising Liberal senators for fiddling with the legislation last year.

The change of heart comes after a bruising few months late last year, when Liberal senators, who enjoyed a plurality in the upper chamber, amended the bill after it passed the House of Commons unanimously.

Had the Senate not approved the handful of amendments in December, the bill would have become law before the new year. Instead, the amended bill was sent back to the House of Commons, where it died when Parliament was prorogued.

Aglukkaq has yet to reintroduce the bill because the government itself is quietly reworking the legislation, even though the original bill received the enthusiastic support from all three opposition parties in the House of Commons.

Aglukkaq herself has said she is working to “improve” the legislation in response to NDP health critic Meagan Leslie, who pressed her earlier this month to reintroduce the legislation without delay and put product safety “back to the Conservative agenda.”

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