Keyword: European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)

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New ECHA Committee Starts Working for Safe Biocidal Products

29.03.2013 - The first meeting of the Biocidal Products Committee from 26 to 27 March 2013 was one of the big milestones in preparation for the new regulation. The committee has started work on...

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Substance Evaluation Under REACH: Annual Update of CoRAP Published

21.03.2013 - The Community rolling action plan (CoRAP) for 2013-2015 covers 115 substances that are suspected of posing risk to human health or the environment. The updated CoRAP list has been...

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ECHA Launches New Public Consultation on 10 Potential SVHCs

04.03.2013 - ECHA has published new proposals to identify a further 10 chemicals as substances of very high concern (SVHCs). Several of the proposals in the current consultation are based on...

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EU Lagging in Controls Over Hazardous Chemicals

30.10.2012 - More than a thousand potentially hazardous chemicals often found in cosmetics and cleaning supplies remain unregulated on the European market, environmental activists say. Green...

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Cefic Leader Concerned REACH Stifles Innovation

02.10.2012 - Concerns are mounting that REACH legislation leads to EU chemicals companies to forgo research and innovation to stay compliant, said then-Cefic President Giorgio Squinzi during...

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The Impact and Future of REACh

14.05.2012 - REACh - The European Union chemicals regulation REACh (short for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) requires all companies manufacturing or...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Reach In 2013

27.01.2012 - First Round - By Dec. 1, 2010, the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) had received approximately 25,000 registration dossiers for about 4,700 different chemical substances that are...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Strategic Chemicals Management and Reach

09.11.2011 - Deep Impact - Reach affects almost all departments in a chemical company. It is not only an issue for the regulatory affairs manager, but has an overall impact on procurement...