The Board of Appeal has upheld an Agency decision rejecting the read-across approach proposed by the Appellant and, consequently, requesting information on pre-natal developmental toxicity. In appeal case A-001-2012, the Board of Appeal ...
BASF has successfully completed the second phase of registration for REACH under EU chemical law. REACH stands for the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals and represents a fundamental reorganization of ...
BASF has completed the second phase of registration for REACH under EU chemical law. REACH stands for the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals and represents a fundamental reorganization of chemical law in ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The countdown to the next REACH deadline of 31st May is definitely underway. This is the deadline for companies that manufacture or import in the EU phase-in (those already pre-registered) substances in quantities above 100 tonnes a year to ...
Tags: Malcolm Carroll, Packaging
The first results of substance evaluation done by the Member States were concluded at the end of February. 17 Member States evaluated all together 36 substances in 2012 and in 32 cases they propose to ask the registrants to provide more ...
Tags: ECHA Members, Apparel
The Eighth Stakeholders' Day conference takes place in Helsinki on 26 March. It focuses specifically on SMEs, in particular member registrants, who are preparing for the 2013 REACH registration deadline. Guest speakers will present chemical ...
Tags: ECHA, eight stakeholders conference, industry associations
The European Union’s controversial REACH legislation on the safety of chemicals has been challenging chemical producers and their raw material suppliers since it came into effect five years ago. Initially the major concern was that ...
Tags: European Union, chemicals, coatings sector
Manufacturer's organisation EFF is urging Britain’s manufacturers to get to grips with REACH, a European Directive banning certain chemicals, "or face the prospect of unlimited fines or prison", it said. Not to be confused with RoHS ...
The European coatings sector is being confronted with one of its most difficult challenges in the communication of safety information to its customers and other paint users. This communications problem stems from the ...
Tags: coatings sector, European, REACH
The French Agency for Food Health Safety (ANSES) has urged the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to classify BPA as a reprotoxic substance. Currently, BPA is classified under category 2 substance, which means suspected reprotoxicity. ...
The French Agency for Food Health Safety (ANSES) has called on the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to classify BPA as a more severe category 1 reprotoxic substance under the EU rules on the classification, labeling and packaging (CLP) of ...
Tags: BPA's classification, Chemicals, BPA