Market Flash

This clarifies a Chemical Watch story published on 7 June, which was removed due to inaccuracies.

• Cosmetic
• Animal

The forecast for the global supply of natural rubber has been revised by the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC).

• ANRPC
• Natural
• Rubber

Benchmark Tokyo rubber futures on Wednesday jumped more than five percent to their highest in nearly two weeks, backed by Thai government's plan to help rubber farmers and stabilise falling prices.

• TOCOM
• Rubber

Arjuna Natural Extracts Ltd. have announced the opening of its new sales office in Dallas, Texas, to better serve its North American customers and bring its new natural preservatives line to the US.

• Preservatives
• U.S.

Some of the dust has settled after President Trump's recent decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, so it is an auspicious time to discuss how this decision could affect the plastics industry.

• PVC

Some of the dust has settled after President Trump's recent decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, so it is an auspicious time to discuss how this decision could affect the plastics industry.

• Electricity

Thresholds and limits for materials expected from drinking water Directive review.

• Drinking
• Water

School lunch options have come a long way. That was apparent at the Colorado School Nutrition Association’s Annual Summer Food Show at the Colorado Convention Center.

• Food
• Summer

The European Commission's Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) has published final Opinions on two cosmetics formulations and ingredients.

• Cosmetics

Food prices rose at their fastest annual pace in more than six years as increasingly expensive vegetables were made more scarce by wet weather in autumn.

• Food
• Price

The European Commission has requested a scientific Opinion on the safe use of butylphenyl methylpropional (p-BMHCA) in cosmetic products.

• Cosmetic

Yumi, the Los Angeles-based baby food delivery service co-created by former TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal reporter Evelyn Rusli and Angela Sutherland is finally open for business

• Baby
• Food

Sweden's Board of Trade has notified the European Commission of plans to change its Chemicals Inspectorate Regulations with regard to nanomaterials.

• Nanomaterial

US toy firm Radio Flyer has revealed its safer material strategy in a webinar this week on the Chemical Footprint Project (CFP).

• Toy

Industry groups have united in opposition to California’s proposal to name spray polyurethane foam (SPF) containing diisocyanates as a priority product under the Safer Consumer Products (SCP) programme.

• Polyurethane
• California

According to National Development and Reform Commission, 894kt of WTO-related tariff quotas on cotton will be allocated in 2017, and about 33% of quotas are given to state-owned enterprises.

• Cotton
• China
• Import

On Jun 1, Xiamen Hualun Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd, the subsidiary of Fujian Zhonghe Co., Ltd, announced that the company has suspended production from end May,

• Printing
• Dyes
• Textile

The Danish Ministry of Environment and Food has released a report describing how to develop a robust method for analysing azo pigments and primary aromatic amines (PAA) used in tattoo inks.

• Danish
• Tatto

Researchers analyzed a random set of studies conducted over the last 10 years on the use of traditional Chinese medicine in treating such illnesses as hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, atherosclerosis and chronic heart failure.

• Chinese
• Medicine

Market is Dominated by Few Global Players Despite of Facing Stiff Competition From Some of the Local Players.

• Crop