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Japan amends New Chemical Substances List: 119 Substances Added

Jun-27-2025 Chemical notification/ registration ISHL MHLW New substances Japan Update

On 27 June 2025, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) announced the addition of 119 new chemicals to the New Chemicals List under the Industrial Safety and Health Act (ISHA). This u...

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Japan’s Positive List for Food Contact Materials (FCMs) effective from 1 June 2025

Jun-17-2025 FCM Food contact materials Enforcement Japan Guidance Positive List

Japan’s Positive List (PL) for food contact materials (FCMs) entered into force on 1 June 2025. On the same day, the Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) published a manual introducing the positive list on...

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Japan adds 50 chemicals to carcinogenic list effective from 1 April 2027

Jun-11-2025 CSCL Exposure monitoring & measurement ISHL MHLW Record Filing Risk assessment PRTR Japan SDS and Labelling Compliance Deadline

On 6 June 2025, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) published a list of 50 carcinogenic chemicals on the ASEAN-Japan Chemical Safety Database portal. The update was also released o...

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Japan: MHLW updates list of substances subject to labelling and SDS delivery requirements under ISHA

Jun-11-2025 ISHL MHLW Regulatory Updates Japan SDS and Labelling Compliance Deadline

Update: On 6 June 2025, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW) published the revised list of 155 chemicals which require labelling and safety data sheets (SDS) on the ASEAN-Japan Che...

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Japan Launches Consultation to Collect Toxicity Data for Chemicals under CSCL

Jun-04-2025 CSCL Public Consultation Ministry of Environment MOE Japan Toxicological Data Priority Assessment Chemical Substances PACS

On 29 May 2025, Japan’s Ministry of Environment (MoE), launched a public consultation to collect toxicity data on chemical substances regulated under the Chemical Substances Control Law (CSCL). The ...

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Japan Releases Updated Guidelines for Revising Standards for Substances in Food-Contact Materials

Jun-04-2025 Amendment Food contact materials MHLW Japan Positive List

On 28 May 2025, Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) released updated guidelines relating to Food-Contact Materials (FCMs) under the Food Sanitation Act. The CAA published the guidelines on its off...

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Japan Releases further Q&A Document of Positive List for Food Contact Materials (FCM)

Jun-04-2025 FCM MHLW Japan Update Guidance Positive List

Update 2: On 26 May 2025, Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) released an updated Q&A document on its portal for the Positive List for Food Contact Materials (FCMs). This time, the CAA addressed c...

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