Industry tool: Occupational Health Check-Up (CIA) | Cefic

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) today proposed a new regulation clarifying that cancer warnings are not required for coffee under Proposition 65, the state’s toxics right-to-know law.The proposed regulation states that drinking coffee does not pose a significant cancer risk, despite the presence of chem...

Learn how to effectively use chemical lists to proactively avoid known chemicals of high concern to human health or the environmentOrganizations of many kinds are creating lists of chemicals of concern and related restrictions, from regulatory agencies to manufacturers, brands, large scale purchasers, retailers, and NGOs. It can be overwhelming to ...

ASTM International’s committee on petroleum products, liquid fuels, and lubricants (D02) has created a new standard (soon to be released as D8185) that will serve as a guide for determining how to measure viscosity of in-service oil.According to committee members, anyone with a technical backg...

Development of one new medicine takes about 15 years and costs up to 2-5 billion USD. Usually, 10,000 compounds are tested in the discovery phase, from which 250 preclinical lead substances are selected; the success rate is only 2.5% (hit to lead). Furthermore, from these 250 lead molecules only 5 reach clinical trials (lead to clinic); success rat...

Scientific criteria have been agreed to identify endocrine disruptors under the EU legislation for pesticides and biocides. The criteria for biocides apply from 7 June 2018. A drafting group consisting of scientific staff from ECHA and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), with the support of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), have developed sci...