On 30 September 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2762 into law, making California the first US state to ban the sale of cosmetics containing more than trace amounts of 24 toxic substances. The Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act, effective 1 January 2025, will ban the manufacture of sale of cosmetics containing listed substances linked to […]
The United Kingdom (UK) has left the European Union (EU), and the Brexit transition period ends this this year. On 1 January 2021 UK REACH, the UK’s independent chemicals regulatory framework, comes into force. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has published guidance to help UK companies achieve compliance with REACH chemical […]
India has proposed the latest version of draft Rules, a notification, registration, and restriction approach. The draft Rules are to come into force on the date of their official publication, expected December 2020 or early 2021. The “Rules apply to all Substances, Substances in Mixtures and Intermediates that are Manufactured, Imported, Placed or intended to […]
Health Canada has released an industry guide for vaping products that is subject to the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA) and Part 2 of the Vaping Products Labelling and Packaging Regulations (VPLPR). The guide, Industry Guide to Vaping Products Subject to the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act provides information on requirements under the Canada […]
Having a compliant Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) can be a challenge faced by the chemical industry. SDSs require continual review to ensure they are up to date and provide the necessary information for safe handling of the product. Arguably one of the most important parts of the SDS is section 1.4, where the emergency telephone […]
The proposed Volatile Organic Compound Concentration Limits for Certain Products Regulations were published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, on July 6, 2019. The anticipated regulations will be open for comments for a duration of 75 days, ending on September 19, 2019. The proposed Regulations also considered comments received regarding the 2013 consultation document. Canada […]
New research explores the impacts of COVID-19 We thought we would take a step away from our usual regulatory news topics to discuss some exciting new research taking place here in Canada. Nexreg Compliance is based in London Ontario, which also happens to be the home of Western University (Western), one of Canada’s top research-intensive […]
The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has temporarily excluded specific hand sanitizer formulations from the usual regulatory obligations for therapeutic goods in an effort to address market shortages. For the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic, hand sanitizer may be produced by following the formulation, production, testing, record-keeping, and labelling requirements outlined in the Therapeutic Goods […]