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Regulatory Authorities in the Chemical Regulation of Singapore are National Environment Agency (NEA) and the Ministry of Manpower. NEA is the authority to regulate some environmentally harmful substances. The Ministry of Manpower requires employers to communicate chemical hazard information to workers and reduce chemical exposure.
Companies import, sell, export, purchase, use, or transport any hazardous substances controlled under the Environmental Protection and Management Act (EPMA) need to apply for hazardous substance license or permit.
Regulatory briefing
Singapore manages industrial chemicals through a network of statutory control lists and activity-based authorizations rather than a single pre-market “national inventory.” The central framework is the Environmental Protection and Management Act (EPMA) and the Environmental Protection and Management (Hazardous Substances) Regulations [123, 124].
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Singapore Approves Legislation Establishing HSA as an Integrated Health Regulator
Singapore’s Parliament has approved legislation that will consolidate additional health-regulatory functions under the Health Sciences Authority. The parliamentary bills register records the Health Sciences Authority (Amendment) and Other Matters Bill...
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Singapore Introduces Fee-Supported Registration Pathway for Clinically Important Medical Devices
Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has introduced a Registration Support Initiative to help clinically important but unregistered medical devices transition from the Special Access Route (SAR) to formal registration. Published...
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