14 June 2012

13 June 2012

The Member State Committee (MSC)¹ of ECHA has unanimously agreed on the identification of five substances of very high concern (SVHCs) during its recent 3-day meeting ending on 8 June. The five SVHCs will be added to the Candidate List and may subsequently become subject to REACH authorisation. The Committee also finalised 41 draft dossier evaluation decisions.

12 June 2012

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a news alert on 8 June to the public that consumers should immediately stop buying or start using Reumofan Plus, a health food marketed as “natural” dietary supplement for pain relief and other serious conditions because the product contains several active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) not listed on the label that could be harmful.

Pesticide goods including in “Inventory of Dangerous Goods”(GB12268) with low toxic and packaged in limited amount can still be exempted from China’s Regulation on Road Transport of Hazardous Goods to some extent

11 June 2012

Last week, China Ministry of Transportation announced an official letter to its provincial bureau, Transportation Department of Gansu, ruled that seizure of the 77.5% dichlorvos EC from Nantong Jiangshan by Gansu local transportation administration in late April was inappropriate and the authority should release the pesticide goods soon.

8 June 2012

From ECHA’s news press – ECHA has published yesterday a Q&A document to provide details in advance on the dissemination and new confidentiality claims of such information in IUCLID 5.4, and encourages registrants to familiarise themselves with the upcoming changes.

8 June 2012

From ECHA’s news alert – The six-month deadline for twenty chemical substances that were added to the Candidate List in December 2011 is approaching. ECHA reminds producers and importers of articles containing any of these twenty substances that they need to send their notifications to ECHA by 19 June 2012, provided they fulfil the conditions for the notification requirement in Article 7 of the REACH Regulation.

By Mr. Nathan Chen, Regulatory Affairs Department (International) of REACH24H China

Background:The client is based in Europe and provides raw materials (less than 1 tonne per year) to importers in China. At the moment, they have three substances not listed on the Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances in China (IECSC) 2010 and requested notification services from us.

Problem: The manufacturing process of these substances involves a physical process, and the client believes the substances that are extracted from these naturally occurring substances qualify for exemption.

8 June 2012

China MOH has conducted a public consultation on project proposals of national food safety standards. According to the feedback information and the main focus areas of enactment or revision of national food safety standards, MOH released Announcement No.512 about details of national food safety standards projects in 2012.

7 June 2012

According to Instruction for Use of Consumer Products—General Labelling for Cosmetics (GB 5296.3-2008), all ingredients shall be completely and authentically printed on the visible panels of cosmetics sales packagings to facilitate consumers to identify ingredients that may cause skin allergy and harm easily to some children and shall be listed in descending order of “quantity”. The names of ingredients should be in line with standard Chinese names translated according to International Nomenclature Cosmetic Ingredient (INCI). If a name is not covered by INCI, cosmetics enterprises can use the corresponding name in Chinese Pharmacopoeia, its chemical or botanical name.

More adjustments will continue to be implemented upon hazardous chemical related industry in Shanghai

07 June 2012

Last Month, Shanghai held its 10th Party Congress and blueprinted its portfolios upgrading on heavy industries such as steel and petrochemicals, indicated that more adjustments will continue to be implemented upon hazardous chemical related industries.