December 2022

On 12 December 2022 New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment published a notice on the enforcement plan for the measure to ban plastic products under the waste management policies. Certain plastic products were already banned on 1 October 2022. 3E Review New Zealand prohibits manufacturing and selling hard-to-recycle materials and...

On 1 December 2022 the Official Journal of the European Union published an amendment to Regulation (EC) No. 1925/2006 on the Addition of Vitamins and Minerals and of Certain Other Substances to Foods that introduces green tea extracts containing (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) as restricted or under Community Scrutiny substances. The amendment...