Nexreg ComplianceApr. 17 – Canada: Two Additional NHPD Monographs
From Canada’s Natural Health Products Directorate – two new monographs: Goldenseal Globe Artichoke
Nexreg releases regulatory news educating organizations on the changes in regulations, and how to keep their industrial and consumer products compliant.
Apr. 14 – REACH Question and Answer
A couple of important releases from the EU. First: REACH Pre-registration and Registration Q and A contains a great deal of useful information, including the following: Tens of thousands of companies across the EU are expected to be affected by the pre-registration and registration obligations. It has been estimated that over 180,000 pre-registration files will […]
Apr. 11 – REACH Preregistration
Important REACH news from Chemical and Engineering News: The European Chemicals Agency (ECA) is launching a campaign… which will officially begin on April 14, is targeted at the next quickly approaching milestone in implementation of the EU’s law on the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH)… Geert Dancet, director of ECA, is visiting the […]
Apr. 11 – Canada: New NHPD Monograph for Eleuthero
From Canada’s Natural Health Products Directorate – a new Single Ingredient Monograph for Eleuthero.
Apr. 11 – Prop 65: Chemical Under Consideration – Oryzalin
A release from the OEHHA: Chemical which may meet the criteria set forth in Section 12306 for listing as known to cause cancer via the “authoritative bodies” mechanism: Chemical: Oryzalin CAS No.: 19044-88-3 Chemical Use: Herbicide used on almonds, grapes, fruit trees, pistachios, pomegranates; in gardening and landscape maintenance, and in rights-of-way. U.S. EPA Classification: […]
Apr. 8 – Canada: Bill C-52 – Canada Consumer Product Safety Act
As promised, the first reading text of the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act was released today. The full text of Bill C-52, which contains the act, is available here. This needs to be passed before it becomes law and will likely be amended, but we feel our clients and colleagues need to be aware of […]
Apr. 8 – Canada: New NHPD Monograph for Ginko Biloba
From Canada’s Natural Health Products Directorate – a new Single Ingredient Monograph for Ginko Biloba.
Apr. 7 – Canadian Consumer Product Safety Act to be Introduced Tues Apr. 8
UPDATE: The Act has been released. See: Canada Consumer Product Safety Act. Last month we discussed the proposed Canadian Consumer Product Safety Act. It appears that the bill will be introduced tomorrow, April 8th. The Canadian press reports: A spokeswoman for Health Minister Tony Clement confirmed the government expects to table the proposed legislation in […]
Apr. 3 – Canada: New NHPD Monographs
From Canada’s Natural Health Products Directorate: Updated Monograph – Horse Chestnut New Single Ingredient Monograph – Passionflower New Single Ingredient Monograph – Bitter Fennel
Apr. 3 – IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION: Restricted Components Regulations
We posted a few days ago about Restricted Components Regulations. One question that kept coming up was “We have a product that is a mixture and one of the components is listed in the regulations. Does this apply to us?” The answer: Unless specifically mentioned in the regulations, the act only covers the pure form […]