On 25 Feb. 2016, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) publicised inspection results for exit-entry commodities beyond the catalogue of 2015. The reject rates for e ...

A joint ministry report has upheld a limit of 50ppm on manufacturing or importing organic pigments that contain byproducts of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). This is the limit established by the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic p ...

The French REACH competent authority plans to submit a proposal to Echa by 8 August that bisphenol A (BPA) should be classified as an SVHC. The grounds will be that it is an endocrine disruptor and a CMR. ...

On 8 February 2016, California’s Office of Administrative Law approved the amendment of Title 27, California Code of Regulations, section 25705, Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk for the chemical Diisononyl Phthalate (D ...

In accordance with the General Product Safety Directive 2001/95/EC (GPSD) and Regulation 765/2008, in January 2016 the European Commission validated 138 notifications1 on dangerous products and transmitted them to the Member States and EEA-c ...

On 19 February 2016, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) begins to collect information of reproductive harm of four substances including PFOA to prepare hazard identification documents, which will be used to judge whethe ...

The European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) published CEN/TR 16417:2016 Footwear Industry Guideline for Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs) on 13 January 2016. The standard re-examines and outlines possible SVHCs in footwear, supers ...

On 14 March 2016, EU notified World Trade Organisation (WTO) of Circular G/TBT/N/EU/370 to publish a draft Commission Regulation proposing to amend Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 for plastic food contact materials. The amendment targets at regulating the use of bisphenol A (“BPA”). The draft regulation lowers the specific migration limit (SML) for BPA (0,05mg/kg) from plastic food contact materials in line with the EFSA opinion published in January 2015. It therefore amends C ...

On 4 February 2016, Japan issued Circular G/TBT/N/JPN/515 proposing to amend food and food additive standards and code, which target at food utensils, containers and packaging made of synthetic resins whose main component is PEN (polyethylen ...

Amoena (Nanjing) Trading Co., Ltd. has submitted its recall plan to General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) recently and issued related issues on the website on 19 Fe ...