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CHINA China Publishes Catalogue Of Substitutes For Hazardous Substances: On January 14, 2013, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) published a catalogue of information on possible alternatives to 81 hazardous substances, including heavy metals, organic pollutants, and pesticides. The catalogue includes three sections, based on stage of substitution: development of alternatives; application; and promotion. More information is available, in Chinese, online. China...
OECD Updates Environmental Risk Assessment Toolkit: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced on December 12, 2012, that it updated its environmental risk assessment toolkit. According to OECD, the toolkit provides practical tools for the environmental risk assessment of chemicals. The toolkit describes the general process of environmental risk assessment and provides examples of risk assessment. The toolkit also provides links to relevant tools developed by...
OECD Announces Improved Tool To Predict Hazards Of Chemicals: On November 5, 2011, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced the availability of Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSAR) Toolbox (03), which includes new features and additional data sources; facilitates prediction accounting for metabolism; provides possibilities for predicting the hazard for mixtures; and possesses a more advanced search and reporting engine to handle single...
CHILE Chile Invites Pesticide Registration Applicants To Apply Online: The Department of Environmental Health invited pesticide registration applicants to begin the registration process by applying for authorization online. The Department made public its electronic records for disinfectant products since September 2010, so that registration applicants could see what data the Department already has. More information is available, in Spanish, online. EUROPEAN UNION (EU) ECHA Begins...
AUSTRALIA Australia Amends ICNA Regulations: The National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme’s (NICNAS) July 2012 Chemical Gazette includes a notice regarding amendments to the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) (ICNA) Act and regulations arising from changes to the Work Health and Safety Legislation. The Governor-General approved the amendments to the ICNA r egulations on May 24, 2012, and they include: The notice states that NICNAS will...
AUSTRALIA Australia Announces 3,000 Chemicals To Be Assessed In IMAP Framework: On June 15, 2012, the National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) announced the 3,000 existing chemicals that it will assess through its new Inventory Multi-tiered Assessment and Prioritization (IMAP) framework. NICNAS has designated the chemicals in the first group to be assessed as “Stage One chemicals.” NICNAS identified the Stage One chemicals based on...
OECD Publishes Proposal For Harmonized List Of PRTR Pollutants: On April 12, 2012, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced the availability of the Global Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, Proposal for a Harmonized List of Pollutants, which outlines the results of the work of the OECD Task Force on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR). In 2009, the Task Force noted that while there are 1,200 chemicals in the PRTR data center, only 14...
OECD Announces Availability Of Modified Environmental Risk Assessment Toolkit: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Environmental Risk Assessment Toolkit describes the work flow for environmental risk assessment and management of chemicals with links to available OECD material relevant for the different steps in risk assessment and management. OECD announced on March 19, 2012, that it has revised the Toolkit to include resources other than OECD products, and to...
AUSTRALIA GHS Regulations Enter Into Force — On January 1, 2012, the Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulations in 2012 entered into force. The WHS Regulations, which create a new system of chemical classification and hazard communication on labels and safety data sheets (SDS) based on the third revised edition of the United Nations (UN) Globally Harmonized System of Chemical Classification and Labeling (GHS), will be mandatory from January 1, 2017, allowing for a five-year...
OECD Publishes Schedule Of Chemicals Assessments: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced on December 12, 2011, the availability of a webpage created on eChemPortal that provides links to existing scheduling information of national/regional and international assessments notified to the OECD by OECD member countries and stakeholders. OECD states that the links are provided “with the aim to assist in avoiding duplication across national/regional...