May 2023

On 25 April 2023 France published Law No. 2023-305 of 24 April 2023 Merging the Extended Responsibility Schemes for Producers of Household Packaging and for Producers of Paper . The text reorganizes the two extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes to take into account the similarities of the sorting and collection...

On 3 May 2023 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the filing of a color additive petition under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act to repeal the color additive regulation for titanium dioxide in § 73.575 (21 CFR 73.575), which permits the use of titanium dioxide in foods...

On 20 April 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposal to ban all consumer uses of methylene chloride, eliminate all non-essential industrial and commercial uses, and set tight occupational exposure requirements for the remaining uses of methylene chloride. This proposal follows the earlier determination that methylene chloride...