NEW EU GROUP TO LEAD REACH REGISTRATION WORK ON POLYMERS
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
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
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...
Completeness check of chemical safety reports postponed until October 2020
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and to help companies which may face difficulties, ECHA has postponed the manual completeness checks to chemical safety reports to October 2020. The remaining changes to the completeness check will take effect on submissions as of...
New year, new visual identity, new website!
At the start of 2020, and to celebrate our 8 years of existence, we are proud to present the new visual identity of Equitox. Through this development, we wanted to reaffirm our values and our missions. Thus, the new logo, without making a clean sweep of the previous...
Endocrine disruptor, where we are?
In 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a definition of endocrine disruptors (EDs). An EP is an exogenous substance that alters the functions of the endocrine system with the result that adverse effects on the health of an organism, its offspring or its...
