... Chemicals Agency (ECHA) submitted in 2022. Clay targets are typically manufactured using binders such as petroleum resin or pitch, or coal tar ...
Reclassifying ethanol as a carcinogenic, mutagenic, or reprotoxic substance - something the European Chemicals Agency seems likely to do in the ...
They include new requirements for the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to establish databases within the common data platform containing information ...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is postponing the effectiveness of certain regulatory provisions of the final rule entitled "Trichloroethylene (TCE); Regulation Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)" for 90 days pending judicial review. Specifically, this postponement applies to the conditions imposed on the uses with TSCA exemptions.
ECHA – Chromium (VI) restriction preparation: what you need to know · Chemicals, Webinars · ECHA – New ECHA chemical data availability system – Part ...
Rīga meeting brings together EMA, EEA, EU-OSHA, ECDC, ENISA, CEPOL, BEREC, ECHA ... chemical products, transportation, IT and cybersecurity solutions ...
... Chemicals Agency (ECHA), which recognised resorcinol as an endocrine disruptor. However, the ECHA did not classify it as a “substance of very ...
Registration of chemical substances. Evaluation of the substances by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). Authorization for substances that are ...
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has announced new testing of dozens of substances, including some used in cosmetics, personal care and fragrance.
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has earmarked 13 substances for assessment due to their suspected harmful effects on health and the environment – ...
Under EU law, testing on animals must only be conducted as a last resort – yet the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) requested an archaic chemical test ...
It would define hazardous chemicals as substances with highly toxic ... ECHA also adopted three substance evaluation decisions prepared by EU ...
Final opinions from ECHA's scientific committees are expected in 2025, and a decision by the European Commission could follow soon thereafter. This ...
In the judgment under appeal, the court did not agree with the conclusion of the European Chemicals Agency's (ECHA) RAC. The court "explained that ...
In the judgment under appeal, the court did not agree with the conclusion of the European Chemicals Agency's (ECHA) RAC. The court “explained that ...
In the Federal Register of January 7, 2025, EPA announced the availability of and solicited public comment on a draft risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for Dicyclohexyl phthalate (DCHP) (1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid, 1,2-dicyclohexyl ester) (CASRN 84-61-7). This document reopens the comment period, which is scheduled to end on March 10, 2025, for 60 days.
In response to requests from stakeholders, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is amending the deadline for reporting pursuant to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Health and Safety Data Reporting rule, which requires manufacturers (including importers) of 16 specified chemical substances to report certain lists and copies of unpublished health and safety studies to EPA. Specifically, EPA is amending the deadline from March 13, 2025, to June 11, 2025, for one of the 16 chemical substances (vinyl chloride) and to September 9, 2025, for the remaining 15 chemical substances. The Health and Safety Data Reporting Rule requires manufacturers (including importers) of certain chemical substances to submit lists and copies of certain unpublished health and safety studies to EPA.
26 February 2025 - News release ECHA updates annual evaluation statistics
05 March 2025 - News release ECHA Board of Appeal to transition to new model
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) today commended the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement the Agency will reconsider the 2024 Risk Evaluation Framework Rule, which governs EPA’s review of existing chemicals in commerce under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) today commended the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement the Agency will reconsider the 2024 Risk Evaluation Framework Rule, which governs EPA’s review of existing chemicals in commerce under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) commended introduction of a joint Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution by Representatives Clay Higgins (LA-3) and William Timmons (SC-4) providing for congressional disapproval of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amendments to the TSCA New Chemicals Procedural Regulations under the Biden Administration.
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) commended introduction of a joint Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution by Representatives Clay Higgins (LA-3) and William Timmons (SC-4) providing for congressional disapproval of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amendments to the TSCA New Chemicals Procedural Regulations under the Biden Administration.
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) today commended the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement the Agency will reconsider the 2024 Risk Evaluation Framework Rule, which governs EPA’s review of existing chemicals in commerce under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced on February 26, 2025, that it has updated its annual statistics on evaluation progress.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is announcing the rescheduled meeting dates of the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) that had been previously scheduled for February 2025 to consider and review the draft risk evaluation for 1,3- butadiene. The rescheduled preparatory meeting for the SACC to consider the scope and clarity of the revised draft charge questions for the peer review will now be held on March 25, 2025, and the rescheduled peer review meeting for the SACC to consider the draft documents and public comments will now be held on April 1 to 4, 2025. As previously announced, these meetings will be virtual public meetings of the SACC, with the public invited to comment on the scope and clarity of the revised draft charge questions for the peer review and the draft risk evaluation and related documents, including a new supplement of preliminarily refined risk estimates for 1,3-butadiene released from facilities in advance of and during the peer review meeting. The SACC will consider the comments during their discussions.
In the Federal Register of January 16, 2025, EPA announced the availability of and solicited public comment on the draft scope of the risk evaluation to be conducted under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for vinyl chloride (ethene, chloro-; CASRN 75-01-4). This document extends/reopens the comment period, which is scheduled to end on March 3, 2025, for 30 days.
In the Federal Register of January 14, 2025, EPA proposed a regulation to address the unreasonable risk of injury to human health presented by C.I. Pigment Violet 29 (CASRN 81-33-4, also known as PV29), under its conditions of use as documented in EPA's January 2021 Risk Evaluation for PV29 and the September 2022 Revised Risk Determination for PV29 prepared under TSCA. This document reopens the comment period, which is scheduled to end on February 28, 2025, for 60 days.
This is the second year for implementation of our current strategy statement 2024-2028. Our vision, chemical safety through science, collaboration and knowledge, has informed the actions presented here and will continue to guide us as we deliver our strategy over the next four years. At the core of implementing our strategic goals is our legal mandate and the protection of health and the environment through our work on chemical safety. We will continue to implement our legal mandate by providing transparent, independent and high-quality scientific opinions and decisions, by collaborating with our EU institutional partners and Member States as well as industry and NGO stakeholders and by sharing and advancing knowledge and understanding on chemical safety.
This document announces the Agency's receipt of new chemical submissions under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), including information about the receipt of a Premanufacture notice (PMN), Significant New Use Notice (SNUN), Microbial Commercial Activity Notice (MCAN), an amendment to a previously submitted notice; receipt of test information; a biotechnology exemption application; an application for a test marketing exemption (TME); and a notice of commencement of manufacture (including import) (NOC) for a new chemical substance; and a periodic status report on new chemical substances that are currently under EPA review or have recently concluded review. This document covers the period from 1/01/2025 to 1/31/2025.
EPA is required under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to make information publicly available and to publish information in the Federal Register pertaining to submissions under TSCA, including notice of receipt of a Premanufacture notice (PMN), Significant New Use Notice (SNUN) or Microbial Commercial Activity Notice (MCAN), including an amended notice or test information; an exemption application (Biotech exemption); an application for a test marketing exemption (TME), both pending and/or concluded; a notice of commencement (NOC) of manufacture (including import) for new chemical substances; and a periodic status report on new chemical substances that are currently under EPA review or have recently concluded review. This document covers the period from 12/01/2024 to 12/31/2024.
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires EPA to publish in the Federal Register a statement of its findings after its review of certain TSCA submissions when EPA makes a finding that a new chemical substance or significant new use is not likely to present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment. Such statements apply to premanufacture notices (PMNs), microbial commercial activity notices (MCANs), and significant new use notices (SNUNs) submitted to EPA under TSCA. This document presents statements of findings made by EPA on such submissions during the period from September 1, 2024, to December 31, 2024.
In testimony delivered this morning before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on the Environment, the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) President & CEO, Chris Jahn, called on lawmakers to support practical science-based policy improvements to the nation’s primary chemical management law.
In testimony delivered this morning before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on the Environment, the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) President & CEO, Chris Jahn, called on lawmakers to support practical science-based policy improvements to the nation’s primary chemical management law.
Today, the American Chemistry Council’s High Phthalates Panel issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) completion of a final manufacturer-requested risk evaluation for DINP under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Today, the American Chemistry Council’s High Phthalates Panel issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) completion of a final manufacturer-requested risk evaluation for DINP under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Today, the American Chemistry Council’s High Phthalates Panel issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) completion of a final manufacturer-requested risk evaluation for DINP under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Today, the American Chemistry Council’s High Phthalates Panel issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) completion of a final manufacturer-requested risk evaluation for DIDP under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Today, the American Chemistry Council’s High Phthalates Panel issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) completion of a final manufacturer-requested risk evaluation for DIDP under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Today, the American Chemistry Council’s High Phthalates Panel issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) completion of a final manufacturer-requested risk evaluation for DIDP under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
ACC’s Formaldehyde Panel issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s completion of the final risk evaluation for formaldehyde under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
ACC’s Formaldehyde Panel issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s completion of the final risk evaluation for formaldehyde under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
ACC’s Formaldehyde Panel issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s completion of the final risk evaluation for formaldehyde under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
Guidance for the application of the criteria covering effects on the aquatic compartment was developed by OECD and incorporated as Annexes 9 and 10 in the ‘Globally Harmonised System of classification and labelling of chemicals (UN GHS)’ (Fourth revised edition, 2011, https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/danger/publi/ghs/ghs_rev04/English/ST-SG-AC1030-Rev4e.pdf). The text in part 4, even more so in some of the Annexes to this chapter, is largely based on the text in UN GHS. The guidance given in Annexes 9 and 10 of UN GHS relates to substances, but not mixtures. Some parts have therefore been slightly revised to take into account recent developments and additional guidance documents provided by ECHA. Furthermore guidance on the classification of mixtures has been brought into this chapter as well as classification examples for both substances and mixtures.
The Chlorine Panel of the American Chemistry Council today expressed deep disappointment in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) risk management rule on carbon tetrachloride (CTC).
The Chlorine Panel of the American Chemistry Council today expressed deep disappointment in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) risk management rule on carbon tetrachloride (CTC).
The Chlorine Panel of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) recognizes the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) efforts to regulate trichloroethylene (TCE) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to mitigate unreasonable risk to human health and the environment. While ACC acknowledges EPA made several important adjustments in the final rule, concerns remain about the potential impacts on industries that rely on TCE for critical applications.
The Chlorine Panel of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) acknowledges the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) efforts to regulate perchloroethylene (PCE) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to mitigate unreasonable risk to human health and the environment. While the Panel recognizes EPA made certain changes in the final rule, it also raises significant concerns about the potential impacts on industries that depend on PCE for critical applications, along with compliance challenges with the new Workplace Chemical Protection Program (WCPP).
The Chlorine Panel of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) recognizes the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) efforts to regulate trichloroethylene (TCE) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to mitigate unreasonable risk to human health and the environment. While ACC acknowledges EPA made several important adjustments in the final rule, concerns remain about the potential impacts on industries that rely on TCE for critical applications.
The Chlorine Panel of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) acknowledges the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) efforts to regulate perchloroethylene (PCE) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to mitigate unreasonable risk to human health and the environment. While the Panel recognizes EPA made certain changes in the final rule, it also raises significant concerns about the potential impacts on industries that depend on PCE for critical applications, along with compliance challenges with the new Workplace Chemical Protection Program (WCPP).
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement today on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release of a final procedural rule for new chemicals reviews under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement today on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release of a final procedural rule for new chemicals reviews under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Today, the American Chemistry Council’s 1,3-Butadiene TSCA Risk Consortium issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) completion of a draft Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) risk evaluation for 1,3-Butadiene.
Today, the American Chemistry Council’s 1,3-Butadiene TSCA Risk Consortium issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) completion of a draft Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) risk evaluation for 1,3-Butadiene.
Despite the level of major scientific, legal, federal agency, state, Congressional, public and peer reviewer concerns raised this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is rushing forward to issuing a final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) risk evaluation for formaldehyde by the end of the year which would require risk management, including potential bans or unachievable workplace standards, within two years.
Despite the level of major scientific, legal, federal agency, state, Congressional, public and peer reviewer concerns raised this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is rushing forward to issuing a final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) risk evaluation for formaldehyde by the end of the year which would require risk management, including potential bans or unachievable workplace standards, within two years.
Despite the level of major scientific, legal, federal agency, state, Congressional, public and peer reviewer concerns raised this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is rushing forward to issuing a final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) risk evaluation for formaldehyde by the end of the year which would require risk management, including potential bans or unachievable workplace standards, within two years.
Fertilisers may contain contaminants/impurities or intentionally added substances of concern that can impact human health and the environment, e.g., through contamination of groundwater, surface water and drinking water, accumulation in crops or animal stock, etc. Such contaminants/impurities and intentionally added substances of concern are partly addressed in the new Fertilising Products Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 that sets requirements for the different categories of products. Not all potential contaminants/impurities or intentionally added substances of concern are indeed covered. In addition, the Fertilising Products Regulation does not cover fertilising products marketed under national rules. In case considered necessary to address certain identified risks for human health and/or the environment, the idea is to assess whether the REACH Regulation (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemicals) could be used. Previous activities being carried out by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in the field of fertilisers (e.g., preparation of the Annex XV dossier for the restriction of calcium cyanamide) have raised some questions on how a regulatory management option analysis (RMOA) and analysis of alternatives (AOA) could be best conducted. Under that context, The European Commission – Directorate General Environment commissioned this study to Arcadis and Arcadia International E.E.I.G. together with DHI and Michel Vander Straeten Consulting Services. The study has three separated but interlinked objectives: 1) To assess the presence of contaminants/impurities in fertilisers and to produce a pre-RMOA and a pre-Annex XV dossier for the ones presenting potential risks to human health and the environment (Task 1). 2) To identify potential fertilisers of concern as a result of the effects of their constituents or their degradation products on the environment, including contamination of natural resources, or on human health via the environment; and to assess the possibilities for substitution (Task 2); and 3) To assess the challenges of an analysis of alternatives for fertilisers (Task 3).
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announced proposal to delay the implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Section 8(a)(7) Reporting Rule, which requires any manufacturer of PFAS or those importing PFAS, including articles, to report a broad range of data into the Central Data Exchange (CDX).
The general rule is that only one bridging principle can be applied per hazard class evaluated for the untested mixture. The ECHA Guidance on the application of the CLP criteria6 states that: “[..] only one bridging principle could be applied in the evaluation of a hazard class with the exception of aerosols, where a mixture classified based on another bridging principle is used in an aerosol container. However, different bridging principles may apply to different hazard classes [..]”. Due to the similarity requirements of the bridging principle ‘substantially similar mixtures’ for the composition of the two concerned mixtures i.e. identity of ingredients and concentrations any approach that leads to apply more than one bridging principle per hazard class cannot be implemented by duty holders and such approach constitutes a breach with existing rules for the bridging principle ‘substantially similar mixtures. For example, applying the bridging principle ‘dilution’ for a defined sub-set of ingredients from the mixture composition together with the bridging principle ‘substantially similar mixtures’ is not possible.
This document is the Guidance on the Application of the CLP Criteria. It is a comprehensive technical and scientific document on the application of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP), which replaced the Dangerous Substances Directive 67/548/EEC (DSD) and the Dangerous Preparations Directive 1999/45/EC (DPD) in a staggered way. CLP is based on the Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) and is implementing the provisions of the GHS within the EU. The objective of this document is to provide detailed guidance on the application of the CLP criteria for physical, health and environmental hazards. The guidance is developed to primarily assist manufacturers, importers and downstream users in applying the classification and labelling criteria, and it also includes practical examples. It is also assumed to be the guidance on classification and labelling for Competent Authorities in the Member States (MS CA), for the Commission services and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).