Policy & Regulation

In the past few years, personal care products have become part and parcel of consumer’s life.

• Personal Care

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued two reports on the safe management of hazards by small businesses and storage facilities that use highly hazardous chemicals in business processes.

• OSHA

Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a global safety science leader, hosted 53 attendees at UL's Sustainability Seminar on 'Reducing Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals' that was recently held in Dhaka.

• UL
• Chemicals

Proposed approach may introduce ten-year review period for CBI claims.

• Canada

Gojo Industries looks for 'significant reductions' of parabens, titanium dioxide, triclosan.

• Parabens
• Titanium Dioxide
• Triclosan

Ten years after coming into force, Europe’s flagship chemicals legislation, REACH, has shown great potential for improving the protection of human health and the environment.

• Chemicals
• chemicals
• EU
• EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency recently approval a new chemical that, for the first time under new federal standards, included stipulations on how the substance could be manufactured.

• EPA
• Policy

China's FDA, long criticized for its cumbersome and slow drug-review process, is offering to grant conditional OKs for orphan meds already approved abroad, even without in-China trial data.

• Drug

New York City is taking another run at expanded polystyrene food service packaging with a new ban slated to take hold later this year.

• EPS
• New
• York

The United States and China will expand trade in beef and chicken and increase access for financial firms, as part of a plan to reduce the massive U.S. trade deficit with Beijing, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Thursday.

• U.S.
• China

India has for the first time ever signed a contract to import LPG from I country as it looks at additional sources of cooking fuel to meet rising domestic demand.

• India
• LPG

The Chemical Export Council (CEC) reported an increase of 32% in the volume of chemical exports during the first quarter (Q1) of 2017 to reach $1.02bn compared to $774.7m during the same period in 2016.

• Egypt
• Export
• Inorganic

New Market Research Reports Title 'Fermentation Chemicals Market Growth, Future Prospects and Competitive Analysis, 2016-2022 ' Has Been Added to Credenceresearch.com Report Database.

• Fermentation

PBT basis insufficient to combat drinking water risks, says UBA.

• Germany

Industry groups have named the new chemicals programme and the EPA’s proposed framework rules among areas of TSCA where it would like to see regulations reformed.

• TSCA
• Reformed

Turkey's long awaited REACH-like law is awaiting final approval from the prime minister and will be ready for publication within weeks, a senior official says.

• Turkey
• REACH

A UK food and farming charity is calling on personal care manufacturers to clearly indicate if products labelled 'natural' or 'organic' contain potentially harmful chemicals.

• Cosmetics
• UK

Furcelleran, a sulfated polysaccharide is extracted from red seaweed (algae) Furcellaria fastigiate. It is mostly found in the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent sea, especially in Denmark and Sweden.

• Furcelleran
• Food Additives

The UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum (UKCSF) has updated its guidance for SMEs and downstreams users on the 2018 REACH registration deadline.

• REACH

The US EPA has asked for feedback on implementing a provision of the new TSCA regarding the application of a 'unique identifier' for substances protected as confidential business information (CBI).

• EPA
• TSCA