Policy & Regulation

Global Paints and Coatings Market Research Report 2017 provides a unique tool for evaluating the market, highlighting opportunities, and supporting strategic and tactical decision-making.

• Coating
• Paints

State legislators and consumer advocates have called on Washington state's Department of Ecology to expand the pool of substances to be added to its chemicals of high concern list (CHCC) beyond the 21 current chemical candidates.

• Policy

Trade association PlasticsEurope has taken Echa to court over its decision to include bisphenol A (BPA) on the REACH candidate list of SVHCs. It says that the vast majority of uses are as an intermediate, which is excluded from REACH.

• Plastics
• Europe

A group of consumer, health and food safety NGOs are suing the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over a final rule which they claim allows new food additive chemicals into products, without having their safety properly assessed.

• Food Additives

The government is working to implement the textile policy 2014-15 on priority in its true spirit and for maximum benefit of the industrial sector.

• Textile
• Policy

A coalition of consumer and health groups is challenging a Food and Drug Administration rule that allows manufacturers to decide what can be added to processed foods.

• Food Additives

California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (Oehha) is consulting on proposed amendments that would clarify the content required in notices of violation served to alleged violators of Proposition 65.

• California

Norway's Environment Agency has conducted a study on uses of perfluorobutane sulfonic acid (PFBS) and related substances and their risks in the European Economic Area (EEA).

• PFBS

The European Commission has notified the WTO of a draft Regulation amending Annex II of the cosmetics products Regulation to ban three fragrance allergens.

• EU
• Cosmetics

The Government is pushing the nation’s rubber products industry towards a wider market reach as it shows potential of doing even better.

• Rubber
• Global

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