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...
Read MoreJapan’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...
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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...
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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...
Read MoreOn 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 official portal....
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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 MoE has...
Read MoreUpdate 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...
Read MoreOn 16 May 2025, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW) published the revised list of compounds and mixtures that required labelling and safety data sheets (SDS). The list is...
Read MoreUpdate: On 14 May 2025, Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) published a revised Q&A document on its portal to further clarify the provisions of a Positive List for Food Contact Materials...
Read MoreOn 14 May 2025, Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) published safety review procedures for new substances used in food contact materials (FCMs) on the portal. These procedures primarily focus on newly...
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