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ECHA seeks to assess impact of expanding REACH restriction on cadmium and its compounds in plastic materials

The European Chemical Agency (ECHA) has just recently diverted its attention into a restriction case where cadmium becomes the targeted substance. Effort is being paid to digging out more evidence so ...

2013-01-16

Industrial Chemical

REACH24H gave presentation in Germany addressing change in China GHS legislation

By the end of 2012, Hannah Zhuang the regulatory specialist took a seven-day travel across Germany and Switzerland to bring local companies with the latest trend and updates on Chinese chemical regulation. One of the most important schedules was to attend the users’ conference of PES-Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, the SDS authoring software company. Hannah was invited to give a speech regarding Chinese regulations at the conference. 140 people in total attended the conference with all of them representatives from local German companies or those from neighboring countries. Hannah’s speech was aiming at providing compliance advices from the perspective of German companies.  

2013-01-15

Industrial Chemical

Software available to download for submission of China Reach Annual Report

Corresponding to the <New Chemical Substance Annual Report Template (Trail)>, the software for submission of China Reach annual report is now available for you to download on CRC-MEP’s official website, which is named after “online submission system for new chemical substance annual report”.  

2013-01-09

Industrial Chemical

CRC Issued the 2012 Annual Report Template under China NCSN

On 31 Dec 2012, the Chemical Registration Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (CRC-MEP) issued the trial template of annual report for notified new chemical substances. The annual report of 2012 will be filled and submitted through software platform, which will soon be released.  

2013-01-09

Industrial Chemical

New List of MEP-approved Eco-toxicological Labs Released

A new list of eight testing institutions was released on Dec 31, 2012, after passing the qualification inspection previously organized by China MEP. As a unique feature on the data qualification under China NCSN, eco-toxicological test data has to be obtained in China territory. The new batch of testing institutions will be qualified to provide eco-toxicological testing data accepted under China NCSN.  

2013-01-04

Industrial Chemical

Important Notice: charge of eco-toxic tests about to be changed--REACH24H calling attention to a rise in laboratory quotation of eco-toxic tests for new chemical notification next year

Confirmed news coming from MEP-accredited laboratories, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Science, Shanghai Institute of Environmental Science and Guangdong Detection Center of Microbiology says that new chemical notifiers will have to face increased price of eco-toxic tests next year.    

2012-12-27

Industrial Chemical

According to the ECHA, confidential claim for content in dossiers could lead to a delay of registrant information published

In the news from ECHA, “Company names and registration numbers now published” (November 28 2012), extended information such as company names and registration numbers in the submitted dossiers together with other content contained within SDS now have been published for each registered substance. In some real cases, EU importers compliant of registration information absent from ECHA website and feel doubted about the authenticity of registration. For example, an EU importer pointed out the reference number given on a submission report could not lead to the registration information exactly by searching the ECHA database (Registration Substance Database). REACH24H Consulting Group decided to make answers to help erase worries.

2012-12-21

Industrial Chemical

Guidance for China Reach: some must-know points for identifying new chemical substances through IECSC searching

To successfully carry out a notification of a new substance under China REACH lays on various factors, but the foremost is to identify this substance and confirm whether it has been already included in the IECSC (Inventory of Existing Chemical Substance in China). In the article, REACH24H will share its experience on identification of substances through IECSC searching, introducing the differences between PC version and web version of IECSC database. Additionally, we will explain the reason why identification of a substance may fail after searching in IECSC database.

2012-12-21

Industrial Chemical

ECHA alerts compliance on label and SDS

The European Chemical Agency (ECHA) reminded companies to be aware of compliance of EU CLP regulation as its latest official news suggested. For all hazardous chemical producers and users, updated label and SDS are required accordingly and must be aligned with certain norms under CLP regulations. The enforcement activities carried out by authority in each of the EU member states has begun from the December 1 this year.  

2012-12-21

Industrial Chemical

NRCC Official Explains Registration of Chemicals with Uncertain Hazard Properties

At the International Chemical Regulation REACH Workshop, Hangzhou 2012, Mr. Guo Zongzhou, the NRCC speaker in charge of the HC registration, claimed that the NRCC has already drafted a supporting document focusing on the identification and classification of chemicals’ physical hazards, which is formulated to assist the registration of chemicals with unidentified hazard properties.  

2012-12-20