Minamata COP-6 Advances Global Mercury Phase-Outs, Including Dental Amalgam

The sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP-6) concluded in Geneva on 7 November 2025, with over 1,000 in-person participants and nearly 4,000...

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OECD Issues Best Practice Guide on Chemical Data Sharing Between Companies

On 25 September 2025, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its Best Practice Guide on Chemical Data Sharing Between Companies. The guide aims to help organisations share chemical...

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UN publishes 24th Revised Edition of the UN Orange Book

Update: On 15 September 2025, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) published the twenty-fourth revised edition of the UN Model Regulations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (UN Orange...

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UNECE publishes 11th Revised Edition of GHS

Update: On 12 September 2025, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) published the eleventh revised edition of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals  (GHS Rev....

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UN Announces Amendments for the 24th Revised Edition of the UN Model Regulations

On 16 July 2025, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) announced amendments to the Model Regulations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods. These amendments to the twenty-third revised edition...

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UNECE Announces Updates for the 11th Revised Edition of GHS

On 16 July 2025, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) announced amendments to the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).  The amendments to the tenth...

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OECD Publishes New and Revised Test Guidelines for Chemical Safety Assessment

On 25 June 2025, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published 56 new, updated, and corrected Test Guidelines for the testing of chemicals. These guidelines, available in both English...

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COP-12 Expands Stockholm Convention Annex A to Include Chlorpyrifos, MCCPs, and LC-PFCAs; UV-328 Exemptions Revised

At the 2025 Conferences of the Parties (COPs) to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions, held from April 28 to May 9 in Geneva, significant strides were made in global chemical...

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UN Negotiations on Plastic Pollution Progress Slowly Amid Calls for Faster Action and Stronger Mandates

In March 2022, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) adopted Resolution 5/14, calling for the development of an international legally binding instrument to combat plastic pollution, including in the marine environment....

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GHS Update: New Clarifications Proposed for Mutagenicity Hazard Class

On 19 November 2024, the Sub-Committee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) published proposed clarifications to the classification criteria for germ cell mutagenicity...

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