November 2020

On 22 September 2020 the EU Commission published a draft text amending Directive 2004/37 on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work . The revision of the existing limit values for benzene and the addition of two new carcinogens (acrylonitrile and...

Verisk 3E’s Hans Plugge, Senior Toxicologist and Manager Safer Chemical Analytics is presenting at the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)’s SciCon 2 Virtual annual meeting this week. He is presenting with Jakub Kostal of The George Washington University on the concept of a Toxicological Threshold of Concern (TTC)...

On 13 October 2020 the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) published in the Federal Gazette the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Eighth Amendment Regulations, 2020 (8th amendment of 2020), revising the requirements for food ingredients, additives and microbiological standards. The regulation took...

On 16 October 2020 the Vietnam Chemical Agency (Vinachemia) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) issued Letter No. 897/HC-ATHC, dated 16 October 2020 , announcing that it will continue to accept nominations to the Draft National Chemical Inventory (Draft NCI) until 15 April 2021. This is the second...