7 August 2017，Brussels，the European Parliament and the Council amended Annex III to Directive 2011/65/EU to exempt cadmium in color converting light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for use in display systems. According to point 39 in Annex III to Directive 2011/65/EU, cadmium should be exempted from the prohibition after the publication of the Delegated Directive in the Official Journal of the European Union and be expired on 31 October 2019. Member States shall adopt and publish ...

9 September 2017, members of the REACH committee approved the amendments to the proposal of CMR at their meeting. ...

The European Commission validated 377 RASFF notifications this month, including 341 notifications on food, accounting for 90.45%; 24 notifications on feed, accounting for 6.37%; 12 notifications on food contact materials (FCMs), accounting for 3.18%, in which 8 products from China are contained, accounting for 66.67%. ...

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 18 batches of products in October 2017. There are 9 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 50.00%. Based on our statistics, the Chinese products notified through ...

6 October 2017,German together with ECHA proposed to restrict the manufacturing, use, placing on the market and import of C9-C14 perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (PFCAs), their salts and related substances.The proposal may help to protect human’s health and environment. ...

October 27, 2017, CPSC issued a ​final rule referring to Prohibition of Children's Toys and Child Care Articles Containing Specified Phthalates, which will revise the requirements in CPSIA. The Code of Federal Regulations title 16 is also amended by adding part 1307. From April 25, 2018(180 days after the release of the federal Gazette), any toys and children care products shall not be put into the market that contains 8 kinds of phthalate of more than 1000ppm. ...

General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) validated notifications on 54 batches of imported industrial goods, which were found non-compliant during inspection and quarantine process at the entry ports of China. They have not been offered for sale on the China market yet and are re-dispatched or destroyed instead according to laws. ...

25 October, 2017, in Helsinki, together with the competent authorities of Denmark, Italy and Norway, ECHA proposed a restriction to reduce the risks caused by hazardous substances contained in some tattoo inks. Some of the substances have already been banned in cosmetics. ...

3th October 2017, R.I. released a Safety Bill for children’s products and upholstered furniture (H5082), which banned the beddings and upholstered furniture treated with organic halogen flame retardant. The ban takes effect from 1th July 2019. ...

In accordance with the General Product Safety Directive 2001/95/EC (GPSD) and Regulation 765/2008, in September 2017 the European Commission validated 172 notifications on dangerous products and transmitted them to the Member States (EU Member States and EEA-EFTA countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway). ...