Keyword: European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)

Strategy & Management

Into the Crucible: Will the European Chemicals Industry Rise to the Circularity Challenge?

30.09.2020 -

Chemicals are a critical, but often overlooked, factor of success for a circular economy. 96% of all products on European markets, from food to medical treatments, from...

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Producers Sprint to Follow new SVCH Rules

26.08.2020 -

European chemical producers are sprinting to be ready to comply with new reporting rules for Substances of Very High Concern (SVCH) under an expansion of the EU’s REACH...

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ECHA and FDA Waive Rules in Virus Crisis

24.03.2020 - The coronavirus epidemic is interrupting regulatory activity in both chemicals and pharmaceuticals. In two examples, one from Europe, the other from the US, the European Chemicals...

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Have EU’s new TiO2 Classification Plans Hit a Snag?

11.11.2019 - Plans by the European Commission to classify titanium dioxide (TiO2) in inhalable powder form as a category 2 suspected human carcinogen, adopted in mid-September, may have hit a...

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CEFIC Signs up 59 Members for Action Plan

02.08.2019 - Up to now, 59 chemical producers have signed up for the European Chemical Industry Council’s (CEFIC) Action Plan to re-evaluate their chemical safety data, the producers’...

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CEFIC Launches Action Plan on REACH Dossiers

03.07.2019 - Amid criticism that the chemical industry is dragging its feet on REACH, the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) has kept a pledge made in June to help bring producers into...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Chemicals and a No-Deal Brexit

09.05.2019 - So in the end, both the UK and the EU backed away from the spectre of a no-deal Brexit. Originally, the UK would, as a matter of law, leave the EU on Mar. 29, 2019, with or without...

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ECHA Publishes Dossier on Plastics Additives

25.02.2019 - In cooperation with the industrial supply chain, European chemicals agency ECHA has mapped a range of high-volume chemicals used as additives in plastics to aid in identifying...