From: Health Canada

To help cosmetic manufacturers satisfy the requirements for sale of a cosmetic, Health Canada developed the Hotlist – an administrative list of substances that are restricted and prohibited in cosmetics.

The March 2011 Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist replaces the June 2010 version.  To view the changes made, please refer to the document entitled “March 2011 changes to the Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist” on Health Canada’s website.

Health Canada welcomes stakeholders to submit comments on proposed changes to the Hotlist. Entries for ingredients are proposed to be added to the Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist as a restriction or a prohibition via consultation process.

For more information on the Hotlist, click on the above link.

From:  OEHHA

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) within the California Environmental Protection Agency is adding MON 4660 (dichloroacetyl-1-oxa-4-azaspiro(4,5)-decane) (CAS No. 71526-07-3), MON 13900 (furilazole) (CAS No. 121776-33-8) and pymetrozine (CAS No. 123312-89-0) to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer for purposes of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 651). The listing of the three chemicals is effective March 22, 2011.

The listing of the three chemicals is based on formal identification by an authoritative body2, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), that the chemicals cause cancer. The criteria used by OEHHA for the listing of chemicals under the “authoritative bodies” mechanism can be found in Title 27, Cal. Code of Regs., section 25306.

A complete, updated Proposition 65 list is published elsewhere in this issue of the California Regulatory Notice Register and is available on the OEHHA website at http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65.html.

Click on the links for more information.

From: OEHHA

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) within the California Environmental Protection Agency is adding S,S,S-tributyl phosphorotrithioate (Tribufos, DEF) (CAS No. 78-48-8) to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer for purposes of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65 ).  The listing of S,S,S-tributyl phosphorotrithioate (Tribufos, DEF) is effective February 25, 2011.

S,S,S-Tributyl phosphorotrithioate (Tribufos, DEF) (CAS No. 78-48-8) is being listed as a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer.  The listing of S,S,S-tributyl phosphorotrithioate is based on formal identification by an authoritative body , the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), that the chemical causes cancer.

For more information, click on the following links.

From : OSHA

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Millard Refrigerated Services Inc. in Theodore with 16 alleged safety and health violations following an incident in which 152 workers were overcome by ammonia vapors. Proposed penalties total $52,500.

In August 2010, anhydrous ammonia leaked out of a 12-inch pipe located on the roof of the Millard Refrigerated Services facility, due to hydraulic shock within the pipe. A failure of a suction header inside the facility on one of the evaporators to a blast freezer also occurred at approximately the same time…One hundred fifty-two workers from several companies went to the hospital for ammonia vapor exposure, 31 were admitted and four were placed in the intensive care unit.

The company is being cited with seven serious safety and one serious health violation with $45,500 in proposed penalties. Four of the safety violations related to the incident include failure to consider hazard analysis from previous incidents; ensure an emergency shutdown would be executed in a timely and safe manner; train workers in process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals; and investigate the contributing factors to an incident that could have resulted in a catastrophic event.

Click on the links for more information.