Safety, Health & Environment Alert (SHE Alert) - Highlights 2008
SHE Alert Selected Topics of The Month - April 2008 Issue 160
Editor:- Dr Tina Walton
April 2008 Issue 160
In the April issue of SHE Alert there are 45 abstracts, and entries for 50 substances in the Substance Monitor. The abstracts include:
- PBT summary reports
- MEPs vote on GHS in Europe
- Reach Regulation on fees is published
- Reach guidance for monomers and polymers
- Adding more substances to the RoHS Directive?
- ECJ rules that dec-BDE is banned!
- California - SCM for architectural coatings
- Washington - Chidlren's Safe Products Act 2008
March 2008 Issue 159
In the March issue of SHE Alert there are 42 abstracts, and entries for 17 substances in the Substance Monitor. The abstracts include:
- AssuredNano – an accreditation scheme
- New versions of EUSES and ESIS
- Directive 2008/39/EC – Food contact materials
- Reach guidance
- Review of the Seveso II Directive
- USA – VOC emissions regulation for aerosol coatings
- China – environmental economic policies
February 2008 Issue 158
In the February issue of SHE Alert there are 40 abstracts, and entries for ca. 60 substances in the Substance Monitor. The abstracts include:
- Directive 2008/1/EC - Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control
- EU Code of Conduct - Responsible Nanotechnology Research
- AFC Opinion on 18th list of food-contact materials
- Proposal to ban the domestic use of methylene chloride in paint strippers
- California Dreamin' of a Green Chemistry Initiative
- Canada - VOC Regulations delay
- USA: Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Programme
- Australia: restrictions to the use of certain lead compounds in coatings and inks
January 2008 Issue 157
In the January issue of SHE Alert there are 44 abstracts, and entries for 48 substances in the Substance Monitor. The abstracts include:
- European Commission adopts new legislation on industrial emissions
- UK Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007
- Trichloroethylene link with Parkinsonism
- Biocidal Products - EC Regulation No 1451/2007
- Occupational exposure as a painteris carcinogenic to humans
- BSI guide to safe handling of nanomaterials
- US Consumer Product Safety Modernisation Act bans lead in children's toys
- USA: NESHAP for paint stripping and miscellaneous surface coating operations
- Screening assessments for first batch of substances in Canada's Chemicals Management Plan
Key developments January-December 2007
Key developments in legislation and other highlights from January-December 2007 include:
- EU Legislation and issues
- Proposal to restrict the use of certain glycol ethers in paints;
- AFS Convention to enter into force in 2008;
- Restrictions on the marketing and use of PFOS;
- EU sets a date for the reclassification of substances;
- EU extension for ecological criteria for paint;
- BREF for surface treatment using organic solvents;
- EU and USA updates on toy safety;
- Reach – EC Regulation No 1907/2006;
- New European Chemicals Agency starts operations.
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US legislation
- America – DHS releases chemical security regulations;
- Canada – 2-Butoxyethanol Regulations;
- USA Green Chemistry Bill;
- NESHAP for paint stripping and miscellaneous coating operations;
- USA recommendation for more stringent lead standards.
- Proposal to add ethylene glycol to CEPA, 1999;
- USA: NESHAP for epoxy resin production.
- Asia Pacific legislation
- Australia – prohibition to the use of pentabromodiphenyl ether;
- Japan's Eco Mark for automotive refinish paint.
