Policy & Regulation

California's Department of Toxic Substances Control is taking comments on what product categories it should evaluate between 2018 and 2020 under the Safer Consumer Products (SCP) programme.

• California

The UN project to create a global list of harmonised GHS classifications is "at a crossroads", according to an internal paper prepared for discussion by the GHS sub-committee in December.

• Harmonised

The Commission nominated PFOA, its salts and related compounds, in 2015, and has used Munich-based consultancy BiPRO to help draft its risk management evaluation (RME).

• PFOA

In spite of making progress on climate risks, the chemical industry is still failing to accomplish the goals outlined by the Paris Agreement, says a new report by CDP.

• CDP

Due to peak season for the textile industry, there was rush of buyers who were keen to replenish their cotton inventories. It was encouraging that the flow of quality cotton also remained high. Phutti arrival is at its peak...

• Pakistan
• Cotton

Maharashtra Cooperation, Marketing and Textiles Minister Subhash Deshmukh at CII Conference on Achieving Sustainable Growth in Textile and Apparel Industry through Manufacturing Excellence said that the Maharashtra...

• Maharashtra
• Textile

Chemical industry associations in Canada, Mexico and the US have presented a united front following the third round of talks for the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).

• Nafta
• USA

Echa's Risk Assessment Committee (Rac) is evaluating dossiers on worker exposure for three genotoxic carcinogens, as part of the European Commission's efforts to set binding occupational exposure limits (OELs).

• Echa

The Consumer Products Safety Commission has urged manufacturers to stop using organohalogen flame retardants in certain items and encouraged consumers to demand products free from them.

• Manufacturers
• CPSC
• Flame Retardant

Echa’s management board has appointed Bjorn Hansen, head of the chemicals unit at the European Commission’s environment directorate-general, as the agency’s executive director.

• Echa

The U.S. Court of International Trade has reaffirmed an antidumping rate reduction amounting to 2.4 percent for Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. regarding the passenger and light truck tires it manufactures in China and imports to the U.S

• Antidumping
• Cooper

Melamine should be tested on a second generation (F2) of rodents, as part of an extended one-generation study (Eogrts), according to Echa's Member State Committee.

• Echa
• Melamine

The Toy Association in the US says that a rule to ban the use of five phthalates in children's products will necessitate testing which "adds cost for the consumer with no safety benefit".

• Toy

Turkey’s environment ministry is to hold its first major industry seminar to introduce the new REACH-based KKDIK Regulation on 27 October in Istanbul, Chemical Watch has learned.

• KKDIK
• REACH

100% regulatory equivalence needed to ensure unfettered access to EU market, says trade body

• REACH

Việt Nam will adopt multiple solutions to reach its target of US$200 billion in total export value for the year, a year-on-year increase of 13 per cent, officials said.

• Export
• Vietnam

Shares of Cadila Healthcare rose 2 percent intraday Monday as it has received USFDA final approval for Oseltamivir powder.

• Cadila
• Healthcare
• Pharmaceutical

After a buying spree earlier in the week, the dwindling interest from spinners pushed cotton prices further lower on Saturday.

• Pakistan
• Cotton

Global fertilizer additives market was valued at $3,170 million in 2016 and is expected to reach $3,741 million by 2023, registering a CAGR of 2.3 percent from 2017 to 2023.

• Fertilizer
• Additives

Regulation on printing and dyeing industry was released to promote structural adjustment and transformation, regulate operation and investment,

• Regulation
• Printing
• Dye