ACF
GHS Report
Select Sector :
Select pages :

USA Regulatory News

US EPA's Latest Assessments: Stringent Inorganic Arsenic Limits PFDA PFAS Peer Review Report

Oct-25-2023 Chemical industry Hazard assessment Risk assessment

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has opened a 60-day public comment period on the draft Toxicological Review of Inorganic Arsenic under the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). This ...

Read More

US EPA Expands Safer Chemicals Ingredient List with Inclusion of Ten New Substances

Oct-20-2023 Chemical inventory Green & sustainable chemistry Safer alternatives

On September 29, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expanded the Safer Chemical Ingredients List (SCIL) by adding ten chemicals. The SCIL is a dynamic compilation of chemicals that m...

Read More

US EPA finalises rule requiring reporting of PFAS data

Oct-19-2023 PFAS TSCA

On 28 September 2023 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalised a rule that will result in the most comprehensive collection of data on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) produce...

Read More

EPA Publishes SNAP Rule 26

Oct-19-2023 Human health exposure Ozone

On June 13, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule entitled "Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Listing of Substitutes Under the Significant New Alternatives Polic...

Read More

EPA Unveils New Peer Review approach for Two Solvents under TSCA

Oct-19-2023 Hazard assessment Risk management TSCA

On June 13, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that its Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) will conduct a peer review of two key assessments: the Draft Risk Eva...

Read More

Maine introduces PFAS ban in food packaging effective May 2026

Oct-19-2023 Human health exposure Packaging PFAS Toxic substances

Maine law 32 MRS §1733(3-B) requires the Department of Environmental Protection to initiate rulemaking to ban PFAS in food packaging as soon as safer alternatives are available. On April 18, 2024, th...

Read More

US CPSC request information on PFAS in Consumer Products and Potential Health Impacts

Oct-06-2023 Human health exposure PFAS

On 20 September 2023 the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) published a request for information on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that are in commerce or may be used in consumer ...

Read More

Top