Updates on Chemical Regulations in Europe and North America | May 2022
🇪🇺European Union
EU Consults on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)- Perfluoroctanoic Acid (PFOA) (May 17, 2022)
The Commission aims to protect human health and the environment by eliminating or restricting the production and use of POPs, as defined in the Stockholm Convention. This act concerns PFOA, its salts and PFOA-related compounds (included in Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2019/1021). It amends the PFOA concentration as an unintentional trace contaminant in substances, mixtures and articles, and removes a specific exemption that is no longer needed in the EU. (Read more)
ECHA: No Change Proposed to Hazard Classification of Glyphosate (May 30, 2022)
ECHA\’s Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) agrees to keep glyphosate’s current classification as causing serious eye damage and being toxic to aquatic life. Based on a wide-ranging review of scientific evidence, the committee again concludes that classifying glyphosate as a carcinogen is not justified. (Read more)
🇬🇧United Kingdom
UK: Audit Report on Regulating after EU Exit (May 18, 2022)
🇺🇸America
EPA Adds Five PFAS Chemicals to List of Regional Screening and Removal Management Levels to Protect Human Health and the Environment (May 18, 2022)
On May 18, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took an important step forward to protect people from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by adding five PFAS chemicals for a total of six PFAS chemicals to a list of risk-based values that help EPA determine if response or remediation activities are needed. (Read more)
EPA Extends Comment Period for Proposed Rule to Ban Ongoing Uses of Asbestos (May 24, 2022)
On May 24, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) extended the public comment period an additional 30 days until July 13, 2022 for the proposed rule to prohibit ongoing uses of chrysotile asbestos to give stakeholders more time to review the proposed regulation and prepare comments. (Read more)
🇨🇦Canada
Canada Publishes the Final Screening Assessment for Silanamine, 1,1,1-trimethyl-N-(trimethylsilyl)-, hydrolysis products with silica (May 14, 2022)
On May 14, 2022, Canada published the Final Screening Assessment for Silanamine, 1,1,1-trimethyl-N-(trimethylsilyl)-, hydrolysis products with silica. The substances were identified for action under the Chemicals Management Plan (CMP). The conclusion on section 64 criteria is that it does not meet the requirements. (Read more)
Canada Publishes Proposed Prohibition of Certain Toxic Substances Regulations (May 14, 2022)
On May 14, 2022, the proposed Prohibition of Certain Toxic Substances Regulations 2022 were published in the Canada Gazette, Part l, for a 75-day public comment period ending on July 28, 2022. The substances included in the proposed regulatory changes are perfluorooctane sulfonate, its salts and its precursors (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid, its salts and precursors (PFOA), long chain perfluorocarboxylic acids, their salts and precursors (LC-PFCAs), hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), Dechlorane Plus (DP) and decabromodiphenyl ethane (DBDPE). (Read more)
Canada Publishes the Performance Measurement for Nonylphenol and Its Ethoxylates (NP and NPEs) (May 27, 2022)
On May 27, 2022, Canada published performance measurement evaluation reports for: 1,3-Butadiene, 2-methyl-, (Isoprene), 2-Butanone, oxime (Butanone oxime), 2-Naphthalenol, 1-[(4-methyl-2-nitrophenyl)azo]- (Pigment Red 3), Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), Bisphenol A (BPA), Lead, Mercury, Nonylphenol and its ethoxylates and Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). (Read more)
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