A recent announcement by the EPA on their ToxCast program; here is a snippet: Riding the wave of the future, EPA’s ToxCastTM program looks to revolutionize the agency’s chemical toxicity evaluation procedures. Today, EPA’s National Center for Computational Toxicology released a list of 340 chemicals that will be evaluated under Phase I of the ToxCastTM […]
Recent article: India : Seminar discusses perils and opportunities of REACH. There is not too much in there that is not in the other introductory articles on REACH that we have posted, but it does contain this useful reminder: ‘REACH’ is the new European Union’s Chemical Regulatory Legislation, which has come into force from June […]
A recent release from the OEHHA: Extension of the Public Comment Period on the Proposed Listing of Gallium Arsenide as Known to Cause Cancer and Hexafluoroacetone, Nitrous Oxide and Vinyl Cyclohexene Dioxide as Known to Cause Reproductive Toxicity On June 15, 2007 the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) published a notice in the […]
Interesting article from The Manufacturing News. Here are some of the hilights: REACH applies to EU chemical manufacturers and importers of chemicals into the EU. It also applies to “downstream users” that manufacture or assemble products containing chemi-cals that may be physically released and that are sold into the EU market. Everything from pens […]
ANSI is hosting a conference in Baltimore, MD that we are sure many of our clients would be interested in. We have been hearing a great deal of anxiety about the potential impact of GHS and REACH regulations: Global manufacturers are facing increasing pressure to balance the economic and societal impact of domestic and foreign […]
Bondo Corp. has been successful in preventing a Prop 65 warning being placed on some of their products: A state appeals court in San Francisco today rejected a Bay area man’s legal bid to force a manufacturer to label automobile touch-up paint with a warning of alleged chemical hazards. The court upheld an Alameda County […]
New allowable limits for the use of boron in oral natural health products: Health Canada has set a maximum limit of 0.7 mg of elemental boron equivalents per daily dose for boron as a trace mineral as part of an “Adults only” multivitamin-multimineral natural health product. In cases where boron is included as one medicinal […]
The July 2007 NHPD Monthly Communiqué includes the following of interest to many of our clients: Product Licensing Information Updated Guidelines – How to Reclassify a Product Licence Application into the Compendial or Non-compendial stream The Natural Health Products Directorate (NHPD) has recently revised its guidelines and procedures for applicants wishing to reclassify a product […]
The Business Journal on an EU ban of a popular weed killer: A European Union court has banned a chemical used as a common weed killer, based on claims the substance does not meet health standards, according to a report by the Associated Press. The chemical paraquat is the primary ingredient in one of the […]
An article from the Orange County Business Journal on the likely addition of Methanol to California’s Prop 65 list: Companies in coatings, automotive and adhesives are bracing for yet another listing of a popular solvent as hazardous. State regulators are close to listing solvent methanol as a hazardous chemical under the state’s Proposition 65 law, […]