A piece on Worldink.com on new FDA rules for dietary supplements: For the first time, manufacturers of vitamins, herbal pills and other dietary supplements will have to test all of their products’ ingredients. The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it is phasing in a new rule that is designed to address concerns that existing […]
Worried about REACH? Nexreg’s resident REACH expert gives these tips: I know deadlines focus the mind, so I wanted give clients some more information about the pre-registration process under REACH. 1. Substances should be pre-registered in order to qualify as ‘phase-in’ substances under REACH, i.e. those that can continue to be sold before a registration. […]
Just-Style.com on REACH compliance: New EU regulations that came into force at the beginning of this month require clothing manufacturers and importers to identify and quantify the chemicals used in their products. A series of registration deadlines is due to roll out over the next 15 years, but as Keith Nuthall explains, companies only have […]
The Edmonton sun discusses new PMRA registrations: It might generate the biggest buzz among retail mosquito-control products. That’s what Joel Gosselin is hoping, as his Winnipeg company touts a garlic-heavy repellent called Mosquito Barrier that has brought at least a sweet early smell of success. The product has become the first such control product registered […]
A recent news release from the EPA includes the following: The proposal recommends an ozone standard within a range of 0.070 to 0.075 parts per million (ppm). EPA also is taking comments on alternative standards within a range from 0.060 ppm up to the level of the current 8-hour ozone standard, which is 0.08 ppm… […]
From the May 12th 2007 Canada Gazette: Notice of second release of technical information relevant to substances identified in the Challenge: Whereas the Government of Canada published on Saturday, December 9, 2006, in the Canada Gazette, Part I, Vol. 140, No. 49, the Notice of intent to develop and implement measures to assess and manage […]
From the May 12th 2007 Canada Gazette: Notice of identification of the third batch and the next proposed batches of the remaining substances in the Challenge: Whereas the Government of Canada published on Saturday, December 9, 2006, in the Canada Gazette, Part I, Vol. 140, No. 49, the Notice of intent to develop and implement […]
Notice from the OEHHA: Request for Comments on Proposed Listing of Gallium Arsenide as Known to Cause Cancer and Hexafluoroacetone, Nitrous Oxide and Vinyl Cyclohexene Dioxide as Known to Cause Reproductive Toxicity: The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is the lead agency for the implementation of the Safe Drinking […]
News from FreshPlaza on EU organic food labeling standards: EU ministers ended 18 months of squabbling on Tuesday over new rules for organic farming and came up with a labeling system that will tell consumers exactly what they are buying. Farmers who sell produce containing at least 95 percent organic ingredients will use a special […]
An update from Health Canada on Drugs and Health Products: Health Canada has identified the need to clarify and communicate an established approach to the classification and regulation of products which may share characteristics of both “cosmetic” and “drug”, as defined in the Food and Drugs Act. The articulation of the established criteria has been […]