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Cosmetic

SFDA Issued Second Batch of IECIC (draft)

SFDA is seeking public commentary on the draft proposal of second batch of Inventory of Existing Cosmetic Ingredient in China (IECIC)   2 July, 2012 With a view to strengthen the management of cosmetic raw material, China State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has released the second batch of IECIC on 28 June, 2012 for public consultation. The deadline for comments is 15 July, 2012.

2012-07-02

Agrochemical

China MEP drafted environmental standard for thermal mosquito-repellent products

China to renew its environmental labeling requirement for thermal mosquito-repellent products by setting series of technical requirements in product designing, manufacturing, limits of the hazardous substances, packaging, recycling   29 June 2012 12 June2012, China MEP has issued a technical standard of “Technical requirement for environmental labeling products- Mosquito coils” for public comments by July 20, 2012. The drafted standard is to replace the original standard, the “The Technical Requirement for Environmental Labeling Products–Mosquito-repellent incense Coil” (HJ/T 310-2006), which was published on November 25, 2006 and came in to force on January, 1, 2007.

2012-06-29

Industrial Chemical

MEP Publishes 2011 China Environmental Condition Bulletin

Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection publishes the 2011 China Environmental Condition Bulletin, summing up recent progress in environmental administration of domestic chemicals in terms of policy, legislation, chemical registration, POP and mercury control   20 June 2012 By Olivia Sun, Ph.D (Chem) Jun 6th, 2012, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has published the "2011 China Environmental Condition Bulletin". In the "Column" of the Environmental Bulletin, data of chemical management in 2011 were released:

2012-06-20

Cosmetic

Attention on the Labelling of China Cosmetics

Recently, Gansu Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision has conducted a spot inspection on 40 batches of children cosmetics (mainly used by infants under 6 years old), among which the labelling ...

2012-06-07

Industrial Chemical

ECHA 2012 CMR Report: Substances registered under REACH & Notified under CLP

From ECHA’s press release - The report "CMR substances from Annex VI of the CLP Regulation which are registered under REACH and/or notified under CLP" is a screening of the information ...

2012-06-05

Industrial Chemical

China to Update its Regulation on Road Transport of Hazardous Goods

The draft, formulated in accordance with the “Regulations of road transport in the people's republic of China “and the revised “Regulations on Control over Safety of Hazardous Chemical” (Decree ...

2012-06-04

Cosmetic

Breaking the ice: assessing risk in Chinese cosmetics

Following the publication last year of guidelines for the risk assessment of impurities in cosmetic ingredients, China is preparing similar guidelines for assessing the ingredient themselves, ...

2011-06-21