Nice blog by Michael Kirschner summarizes steps to take to deal with all the challenges that are threatening products containing chemicals “of concern.” He advises manufacturers to take the following steps: Collect full material disclosure from your suppliers. Simple declarations and certificates are useless. If your suppliers insist on continuing to provide this level of information [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Product Stewardship & Chemicals Management
Posted in Product Stewardship, tagged Product Stewardship on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
REACH Dossiers: 92% Lacking
Posted in REACH, tagged REACH on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
ECHA’s report of 2011 compliance checks showed 134/146 had issues. Oops. Primarily – substance identity – not sufficiently substantiating use of “read across” to avoid testing – poor Chemicals Safety Reports Hey – it’s a new program and everyone is learning. (And they’ve only looked at 146 out of 25,248 dossiers on 4,278 chemicals.)
REACH for 90 Chemicals – CoRAP
Posted in REACH, tagged REACH on February 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
ECHA has now published the list of 90 chemicals that will undergo Evaluation for potential further restrictions under the REACH Community rolling action plan or CoRAP program based on PBT and toxicity concerns seen in the dossiers submitted to date. The “responsible” Member State will have 12 months to review its chemicals (split into batches [...]
California Green Chemistry Initiative
Posted in Product Stewardship, tagged California Green Chemistry Initiative on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Nice summary of the state of the California Green Chemistry Initiative: The Recorder: CA Green Chemistry Law Has Lawyers, Industry on Alert Hard to believe California can manage this mess without years of litigation. This isn’t just putting as label on that customers will ignore like Prop 65 (although it has caused a lot of [...]
TSCA CDR: Webinar on CDX e-Reporting
Posted in TSCA, tagged CDR, TSCA on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On February 8, 2012 from 1:30 to 3:30 EST EPA will conduct a webinar on CDX Registration for the CDR Rule. Discussions will include registration for the 2012 CDR, and how to access eCDRweb, the electronic reporting tool needed to complete the CDR Form U. There will be time for questions. Register for the webinar. [...]
