Industrial Chemical

Registration Certificate Holders under China NCSN Required to Submit Annual Report

On 15 October 2012, the Chemical Registration Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (CRC-MEP) released a notice on its website, urging relevant certificate holders under China New Chemical Substance Notification (China NCSN) to supplement the 2011 annual report before 1 November.  

2012-11-16

Industrial Chemical

Guidance for China REACH: the Serial Notification--some particulars to note

  Under the measures on China New Substance Notification (also known as ‘China REACH’), there are, in total, six types of special regular notification submission, including serial notification, joint notification, joint serial notification, repeat notification, re-notification (for increased tonnage band)and re-notification (for registered use change). In this article REACH24H will share its experience focused on serial notification with which in some cases notifier may bypass difficulties, for an example animal testing of chemicals is against company rules but necessary under China REACH.

2012-11-15

Agrochemical

China to issue new pesticide regulation by December 2012

Late last month in Nanjing, Sui Pengfei, director of ICAMA (Institute for the control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture) revealed in an industrial conference that China to issue new ...

2012-11-12

Industrial Chemical

To-dos after SAWS's latest publication of documents for hazardous chemical registration (SAWS Order 53 of 2012)

After soliciting modification proposals since this July, the SAWS (State Administration of Work Safety of P.R.C.) has officially published the relevant 8 documents for hazardous chemical registration on October 17th. The full package of the documents as the supportive forms of Measures of the Administration of Hazardous Chemical Registration also known as SAWS Order 53 updated in July for short have been available and come into force since October 15th 2012.  

2012-11-02

Industrial Chemical

Exclusive News: National Standard of ‘Gobiocypris Rarus- Fish Acute Toxicity Test’ to Be Published

A Chinese national standard (coded as 20100319-T-469) concerning fish acute toxicity has passed the technical validation in Beijing in September of this year and shall be published soon. This recommended standard specifies Gobiocyprisrarus as the eco-toxicity test material, which is the first national standard on eco-toxicity testing method that adopts a Chinese endemic species as the test organism.  

2012-10-25

Industrial Chemical

China MEP promulgated Order 22 "Measures for the Environmental Management Registration of Hazardous Chemicals"

On October 10th, 2012, Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has promulgated the MEP Order No 22, “Measure for the Environmental Management of Hazardous Chemical Registration (Trial)”, which will take effect on March, 1st, 2013. The new chemical companies and toxic chemical importers/exporters have already been required to register with the MEP for environmental management, but the HC companies shall obtain registration certification for environmental management from the MEP since March, 1st, 2013, and the companies of high environmental concern chemicals are additionally required to conduct the environment risk assessment and inform the release, migration and control measures of their high concerned HCs.  

2012-10-25

Industrial Chemical

ECHA publishes REACH registration statistics

The registration deadline of 2013 is now coming closer. Facing the new wave of registration to reach its peak in the following months, ECHA has just recently published detailed statistics on the origin and types of REACH registration dossiers and registered substances.  

2012-10-24

Industrial Chemical

ECHA urges quality improvement of dossiers to intermediate registrants

It is reported that ECHA has found through its IT auditing tool that a serious quality and conformity problem exists in the REACH registration dossiers of intermediate.   This IT tool mainly focuses on the scanning and auditing of the description of use of the substance in the dossier to see whether it conforms to the condition of intermediate or strictly controlled condition. Among the 5500 intermediate registration dossiers of 760 substances, 2388 dossiers that include use information fail to conform to the definition of intermediate according to the ECHA.  

2012-10-24

Industrial Chemical

Answering the most asked questions from non-EU SMEs for REACH registration

On 27th August 2012, a Customer Company went to Reach24h Consulting Group for some chemical consultations inquiries. The writer of this article has recorded the whole consultation between the logistic manager from Company A and Tracy Chen from REACH24H who is in charge of dossier preparation and chemical risk assessment for the new substance, trying to help SMEs are under similar condition to cope with the problems encountered during the process of REACH registration. The company name and substance name mentioned in the article is classified due to confidentiality agreement.  

2012-09-27

Industrial Chemical

Practical guidance on data collection for new chemical substance notification (China REACH), according to REACH24H experts

In China, seven CRC-MEP drafted national standards on eco-toxicological testing have entered into force since 1st of this August. The seven GB/T (nationwide recommended) standards respectively specify the testing methods of ready biodegradability, degradation screening, biodegradation screening, soil KOC estimation using HPLC, aerobic and anaerobic transformation in soil and aquatic sediment systems, and fish acute toxicity.  

2012-09-27