Board of Appeal decisions concerning vertebrate animal testing on cosmetic ingredients

1 Sep 2020

The two new decisions taken by the Board of Appeal related to vertebrate testing in Reach on ingredients exclusively used in cosmetics (several toxicity tests and a fish sexual development test), are among the most important decisions taken to date. For toxicity tests...

Cosmetopack initiates a research program on container-content interactions

10 Jul 2020

Cosmetopack initiates a research program on container-content interactions: The consortium brings together fifteen actors from the fields of cosmetics and plastics processing to define the toxicological risks related to interactions between cosmetic formulas and their...

NEW EU GROUP TO LEAD REACH REGISTRATION WORK ON POLYMERS

8 Jun 2020

The European Commission has mandated a group of experts from EU member states to lead the work to integrate certain types of polymers into the scope of REACh registration. This group (CASG-Polymers) should start its activities in June 2020 and is to advise the...

New policy from ECHA on dossier updates during substance evaluation

24 Apr 2020

From 14 April 2020, ECHA starts applying a new policy regarding dossier updates during substance evaluation. The Agency and evaluating Member States will not take dossier update into account after registrants have received a draft decision for commenting. If...

Disclosure of more information in the opinions on applications for authorisation

24 Apr 2020

The quantities emitted in the environment of non-threshold substances (for example environmental endocrine disruptors, PBTs and vPvBs) and the release factors will now be published in the opinions on applications for authorisation. In case the confidentiality on the...