Policy & Regulation

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