Future Regulatory Initiatives to be Launched by China MEP during the 12TH FYP

The MEP’s“12th Five-Year Plan for the Environmental Risk Control on Chemicals” has blueprinted the chemicals and companies/industries to be monitored …

SAWS Removes Some Industries Subject to the HazChems Safe Use Permit

China SAWS released on 25 Feb the updated Catalogue of industries applicable for Hazardous Chemicals Safe Use Permit 2013 (hereinafter as “Catalogue”) to replace its previous version issued in 2011.

Companies that are included in the Catalogue and use HCs (for production purpose) with use quantities reaching the threshold annual tonnage specified in the “Use quantities standard for hazardous chemicals” are required to obtain the HCs Safety Use Permit, according to the SAWS Order 57 (Chemlinked news on 29 Nov 2012).

The Catalogue 2011 contains 3 main industries, which are divided into 12 sub-categories with 38 types of products. Compared with it, the newly-updated version has cut two sub-categories and 13 specific products shown below:

Thailand Re-Classifies Household Hazardous Substances

Thailand Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced on 12 Dec 2012 a revision of thehazardous substance list regarding a batch of chemicals used…

New Good Supply Practice for Pharmaceutical Products Issued

The Good Supply Practice for Pharmaceutical Products (GSP) has been issued by the MOH on 22 Jan 2013 and will come into effect on 1 Jun 2013. The new …

SAWS Released the Second Batch of the List of Hazardous Chemicals under Priority Management

ECHA reminds first PPORD is about to expire

CRC-MEP releases its standalone version 2013 of IECSC

ECHA reviews REACH report

On 5^th of February, 2013, the European Commission released general report of REACH review, pointing out that since the implementation of EU REACH, it had played a positive role in facilitating health and environment protection.

Registration Permit is Required for 28 Pharmaceutical Excipients

The Regulation on Strengthening Supervison over Pharmaceutical Excipients has been effective since 1 Feb 2013. Since then, China starts to implement the management on pharmaceutical excipients based on their classification. For the new excipients and the excipients with high safety risk, the registration permit is required and excipient manufacturers need to get the Drug Manufacturing License. The other excipients are under control via the record-keeping approach.

China MoH Released GB 2762-2012 Limiting Chemical Contaminants in Food