30-04-2013

Following several exchanges of information between the parties and interveners as well as an oral hearing, the Board of Appeal has granted the Appellant’s request to annul an ECHA decision requiring it to carry out a 90-day repeated dose toxicity study in the rabbit by inhalation on the ...

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25-04-2013

The amendment of Annex XIV of REACH ("Authorisation List") has been published in April in the Official Journal. Eight new substances are now subject to authorisation for being used after the sunset date. This is the third time that substances have been added to the Authorisation List by the ...

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REACH requires tests for skin sensitizing action

12-04-2013

Promega and BASF have jointly developed an alternative method to animal studies that can reliably detect the allergenic potential of substances. Using a newly developed cell line, the reaction of skin cells to allergenic substances can now be demonstrated in the test tube. Allergic skin ...

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28-03-2013

Exposure to chemicals can occur through the mouth, nose or the skin. While a lot of work has been done studying health risks of chemicals taken up through the mouth and nose, less has been done on health risks caused by chemicals getting into the body through the skin. Chemical legislation, ...

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25-03-2013

The new information relates to the number of substances registered for the 31 May 2013 deadline. It also breaks down the registrations by their type, their role in the joint submission, company size and whether the registration was submitted by a manufacturer, importer or an only ...

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21-03-2013

The Community rolling action plan (CoRAP) for 2013-2015 covers 115 substances that are suspected of posing risk to human health or the environment. The updated CoRAP list has been prepared in close cooperation with the Member States, taking into account the agreed risk-based criteria for the ...

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12-03-2013

ECHA welcomes the EU General Court's conclusions which confirm the Agency's approach in identifying PBTs and vPvBs as substances of very high concern. The ruling confirms that ECHA's approach in identifying UVCB[1] substances as well as other multi-constituent substances as PBTs[2] or ...

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08-03-2013

The CoRAP lists substances subject to substance evaluation under REACH. In the first year, 2012, the Member States agreed to evaluate 36 substances. The deadline for submitting the results to ECHA was 28 February 2013. In 32 cases the evaluating Member State concluded to request further ...

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07-03-2013

The EU chemicals regulation REACH provides new information about the production and use of chemicals in the EU. Companies from a wide range of sectors around the world have registered their production or imports of chemicals with the European Chemicals Agency, ECHA. Previously ECHA refused to ...

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01-03-2013

Last year was a crucial year for evaluating REACH registration dossiers. The Evaluation Report 2012 presents details and figures on the Agency's evaluation activities and their respective output. During 2012, ECHA examined all the testing proposals received for the first REACH registration ...

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