A recent bulletin from the EPA: Nanoscale Program Approach for Comment which includes the following information: To ensure stakeholder involvement in the development of the Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program, EPA has issued Federal Register (FR) notices seeking public comment on a concept paper and other materials connected to this program… On October 18, 2006, EPA […]
Forbes discusses the cost of REACH compliance to Russian business in Russia ‘forced’ to apply costly EU chemical standards: Russia will be ‘forced’ to apply EU safety standards in the chemical industry, which will cost Russian companies up to 10 percent of their export earnings, Russian officials said. The Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of […]
An article in the Boston Globe by William D. Ruckelshaus, who served as the EPA’s first administrator from 1970-1973 and again from 1983-1985 and J. Clarence Davies a senior adviser at the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies and Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future: It is time for the EPA to step into the breach […]
A short piece from the Midday Express, Commission wants to align classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals to UN standards, on how the new proposed EU regulations look to align exist regulations, REACH, and GHS into one entity: The European Commission is thinking to align the current EU system of classification of chemical substances and […]
A press release from Canada’s newswire: California releases Proposition 65 statistics indicating large financial implications for electronics manufacturers. It details the expensive penalties for non-compliance: The legal impact of Proposition 65 on businesses selling products into California has steadily increased since the initiative’s inception in 1986. Over the past six years, there have been approximately […]
Article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Made in China (buyer beware). Penalties for non-compliance might be increasing in the United States: Last week alone the list included glassware from Pier 1, with 21 reports of cracked or broken glass; reclining chairs blamed in eight injuries; car tires blamed in two deaths; and fish and […]
A notice from the OEHHA: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Title 22, California Code of Regulations Amendment To Section 12805 Specific Regulatory Levels: Chemicals Causing Reproductive Toxicity: di(n-butyl)phthalate (DBP): NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment proposes to establish a specific regulatory level having no observable effect for one chemical: […]
An article in the American Laundry News about MSDSs and OSHA inspections: Most of us will never have to deal with a random Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspection. But if you do, it’s guaranteed to come at the worst possible time. I recently took a Caribbean cruise vacation with my wife. My plant […]
An important press release today from the EU on GHS and REACH: The European Commission today has proposed to align the current EU system of classification of chemical substances and mixtures to the United Nations Globally Harmonised System (GHS). The internationally accepted harmonised classification criteria and labelling elements will be integrated in new EU legislation, […]
The latest from the OEHHA: The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65 or the Act) which is codified at Health and Safety Code section 25249.5 et seq., requires the Governor to publish, and update at least annually, a list of chemicals known to the State to cause cancer or reproductive […]