Thursday, July 12, 2012

Toxicologists Recommend Changes to OECD Guidelines to Include Nanoparticles

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Expert toxicologists from the OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN) have issued a report recommending that OECD guidelin...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Lautenberg Leads Bipartisan Group of 26 Senators in Calling for Reform of Toxic Chemicals Law

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Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and 25 other Senators, including three Republicans, wrote a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson yeste...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

EPA Posts Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program Management Plan

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According to the USEPA: EPA has posted the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP) Comprehensive Management Plan on its website. ...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

ECHA Adds Thirteen Substances to Candidate List

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The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has added thirteen new substances of very high concern (SVHCs) to the REACH candidate list.  This lis...
Friday, June 29, 2012

House Republicans Disagree with Endocrine Society on Need for EDSP

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This week the Endocrine Society issued a series of recommendations " that will strengthen the ability of the current screening progr...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

REACH-IT update scheduled for 11 July 2012

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The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has announced that it will upgrade REACH-IT, the user interface needed to submit chemical dossiers fo...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Endocrine Society issues Statement of Principles on endocrine-disrupting chemicals and public health protection

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The Endocrine Society , whose mission is "to advance excellence in endocrinology and promote its essential and integrative role in ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Chesar 2.0 released and strongly recommended by ECHA for REACH

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Announced by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) : ECHA launches a new generation of its Chemical Safety Assessment and Reporting Tool...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

ECHA Calls for Comment on 10 Chemicals to be Banned

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ECHA, the European Chemicals Agency based in Helsinki, issued a request for comment yesterday on proposals to ban ten additional chemicals...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Australia IMAP Lists 3000 "Stage One" Chemicals for Assessment

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The Australian chemicals agency, which goes by NICNAS, has announced that it will implement its new Inventory Multi-tiered Assessment and ...
Monday, June 18, 2012

ECHA Drops Proposal to Restrict Four Phthalates

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The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has dropped its plan to restrict the use of four phthalate chemicals. The proposal had been put forth...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Is EPA Ready to Use TSCA Section 6 Again?

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Bloomberg BNA is reporting that EPA may be on the verge of pulling out the TSCA Section 6 rulemaking book again, something they haven'...
Monday, June 11, 2012

EPA Extends Reporting Deadline for Chemical Data Rule

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News Flash - The USEPA has announced an extension of the reporting deadline for the CDR (formerly the IUR): Jim Jones, EPA’s Acting Ass...
Monday, June 4, 2012

More on EPA's Work Plan Chemicals for 2013 and 2014

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As noted previously , EPA has 18 additional chemicals that it will review and assess in 2013 and 2014. The list builds on the March 2012 r...