Policy & Regulation

New guidance produced on safe levels of exposure and water contamination.

• Australia
• PFAS

It will become a national standard once adopted.

• China
• substance restrictions

The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Group of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (PMG-MAN) has commended the Senate President, Bukola Saraki for his intervention which led the Federal Government to introduce an Import Adjustment Tax policy.

• Pharmaceutical

Industry groups lobby Department of Commerce on array of regulations.

• TSCA

China will take new tax cut measures to spur corporate dynamism and competitiveness, as tailored measures were approved at the State Council executive meeting presided over by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday.

• China
• Tax
• Reduction

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved supplemental applications for Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) and Harvoni (ledipasvir and sofosbuvir) to treat hepatitis C virus (HCV) in children ages 12 to 17. Harvoni and Sovaldi ...

• Drug
• Hepatitis

According to the report “Middle-East and Africa Food Additives Market”, published by Market Data Forecast, the MENA Food Additives market has been estimated at $3.24 Billion in 2016 and is projected to reach $4.25 Billion by 2021.

• Middle East
• food addtives

MDI, TDI, and Polyurethane Market to Reach $90 Billion by 2021 - Increase in Demand For Polyurethane from Various End Use Industries (Construction, Automotive, Electronics, Others) - Research and Markets

• Polyurethane

The new government-set target price for cotton grown in China's Xinjiang province will remain flat with last year at CNY18,600 per ton (US1.22 per pound), and will remain in place through the 2019 planting season.

• Cotton

Brazil’s national chemicals association, Abiquim, has set up an internal working group, to direct and influence the text of the country’s draft industrial chemicals policy.

• Brazil

The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) has called on UK prime minister Theresa May to secure the best deal for the chemicals industry, following today’s triggering of Article 50 to start the Brexit process.

• Brexit
• CIA

The European Commission's Standing Committee on Cosmetic Products has voted in favour of a longstanding proposal banning three fragrance allergens.

• cosmetics
• EU

Industry associations have criticised the European Commission’s handling of substance processing and data under the classification, labelling and packaging Regulation (CLP).

• CLP
• REACH

The European Commission expects to publish its report on the second five-year evaluation of REACH in October – four months later than planned, according to a source in the Commission’s environment directorate

• Echa
• REACH
• Europe

The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Osha) may need to delay submitting its regulatory plans for this year as it waits for the head of the US Department of Labor to be confirmed.

• Osha
• America

Echa expects to complete a draft of its strategy on substitution by the summer, with the final version slated for the end of the year.

• Echa
• policy

The US House of Representatives has passed a measure to bar the EPA from taking regulatory actions based on science that is "not transparent and reproducible".

• CLP
• policy

• TSCA

Americans eat way too much salt, and one reason why is that processed and prepared foods have a lot of hidden salt, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.

• Salt

Based on the supply-side reform, the growth of carbon black capacity has slowed down, and limited capacity is scheduled to be expanded. But, the demand for carbon black increases year by year. It is predicted the demand for carbon black may increase...

• Carbon
• Black
• Tire