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October 20, 2015
ECHA Committee for Socio-Economic Analysis holds public consultations on draft opinions for restriction of BPA in thermal paper and PFOA; deadline for comments is November 16, 2015
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October 20, 2015
Danish Chemicals Forum – including NGOs and industry - calls for improvement of EU chemicals regulation in open letter to the European Commission and the European Chemicals Agency
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September 18, 2015
ECHA launches platform with guidance for industry on replacing toxic chemicals and hosts webinars on the topic
Topics: ECHA
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September 15, 2015
ECHA Committee for Risk Assessment and Committee for Socio-Economic Analysis release opinions on restriction proposals for PFOA and BPA
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September 10, 2015
ECHA publishes extensive summary of scientific workshop on risk assessment of nanomaterials held on October 23-24, 2014 in Helsinki, Finland
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September 9, 2015
NGOs urge European Commission to ban recycling of materials containing toxic flame retardant DecaBDE, a chemical previously found in recycled plastic FCMs
Topics: ECHA, endocrine disruptor, European Commission, flame retardants, REACH, recycling, regulation, SVHC
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September 4, 2015
ECHA opens public consultation on 7 proposals for new substances of very high concern from August 31 to October 14, 2015; proposals include phthalate used in FCMs and UV-filters permitted in packaging inks
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September 2, 2015
ECHA makes available the list of active biocidal substances on the EU market including the substance or product suppliers
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September 1, 2015
Today ECHA hosts Biocides Stakeholders’ Day – conference presentations and live-stream available online
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July 23, 2015
First applications for union-wide authorization of biocidal products submitted to ECHA
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