Policy & Regulation

Work on Brazil's planned industrial chemicals regulation is moving forward again after Conasq, the country's National Chemical Safety Agency, met on 6-7 July to review responses to last year’s consultation on a draft policy.

• Brazil
• Chemicals

Partnerships with global chemicals companies will be vital to create new growth opportunities, finds Frost & Sullivan.

• Bio-Based
• Phytochemical

Chemical industry groups are backing a company-specific approach for assigning a "unique identifier" to confidential chemical identities under the new TSCA, but an NGO is advocating a stricter interpretation of the law.

• NGO
• TSCA

The European Food Safety Authority has published an opinion on the safety of dimethyl carbonate in "repeated-use" food contact materials.

• Efsa
• Dimethyl Carbonate

Organs may retain some titanium dioxide nanoparticles for more than seven days after they enter the body, according to radiolabelling studies by a team from the Helmholtz Centre Munich in Germany and the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC).

• Radiolabelled
• Nano
• Titanium Dioxide

The UK has confirmed that it will continue to attend and actively participate in Echa and European Commission fora while Brexit negotiations continue.

• UK

A toxicologist named this week by President Donald Trump to oversee the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) chemical safety programs is catalyzing controversy.

• EPA

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has called on the US EPA to include recent industry analysis in its ongoing IRIS assessment of formaldehyde.

• Formaldehyde
• Flooring
• Aldehyde

The Tiruppur Exporters' Association (TEA) has urged the state government of Tamil Nadu for the announcement of textile policy for the state.

• TEA
• Textile

New Zealand's food policies need major improvement in order to see any change to the country's obesity epidemic, a new report says.

• Food
• Policy

China told the World Trade Organization July 18 that it will ban imports of scrap plastics and other “foreign garbage” by the end of the year, officially taking a step that had been widely rumored in the industry.

• Plastic
• Import

EU member states have agreed to grant seven Finnish companies authorisation to use chromium trioxide in chromium VI-based functional plating.

• Trioxide
• Authorisation
• EU

Vietnam has set out details of the draft of its new chemical law in a submission to the WTO Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade. The law is expected to be adopted on 7 August and come into force in September.

• Vietnam

The global silane market is expected to reach an estimated $1.8 billion by 2022 and it is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 3.9% from 2017 to 2022.

• Silane

By now, companies that have started production in Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, short for Bozhou, Xinjiang,

• Spinning

Analysts, politicians and TV personalities are often reporting on the health of domestic manufacturing, and when they do so, they tend to point to the same sectors as indicators of success such as tech, cars and energy.

• U.S.
• Tire

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has ordered a fresh investigation against state-owned GAIL (India) for alleged abuse of dominant position with regard to supply of natural gas.

• CCI
• GSA
• Gas

For the year ended 31 December 2016, the revenue of the Texhong Group, with total annual production capacity of about 2.89 million spindles, 816 looms and 18 denim production lines, reached a record high of RMB13.65 billion...

• Spinning

This contrasts with the "highly detailed content and rigid rules" typically encountered in the EU and US.

• Enforcement
• Right-to-Know
• Confidentiality

Natural rubber (NR) prices recovered gradually in June while a supply deficit remained in place, according to the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC).

• Rubber