Report on the proposal for a Regulation on the transparency and sustainability of the EU risk assessment in the food chain

The European Commission and ECHA have signed an agreement for the Agency to provide recommendations on a regular basis for occupational exposure limits (OELs) that protect workers exposed to hazardous chemicals. The agreement requires ECHA to assess four to five OELs per year from 2020 onwards. "The preparation of scientific dossiers proposing...

It has been more than 18 months since EDF and other advocates challenged the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) May 2017 decision to continue allowing perchlorate in dry food plastic packaging and food handling equipment.While Congress gives FDA 180 days to act on food additive petitions, FDA must act “as soon as p...

First, the good news: plaintiffs in a 2013 lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) can allow themselves a small victory dance. In that suit, plaintiffs made a number of claimsrelated to EPA’s failure to protect pollinators from dangerous pesticides, its poor oversight of the bee-killing pesticides clothianidin&...

A drug company has recalled more irbesartan blood pressure medication after discovering a potential human carcinogen.Prinston Pharmaceutical, doing business as Solco Healthcare, has voluntarily recalled of eight more lots of Irbesartan blood pressure medication after detecting trace amounts of impurity in an active pharmaceutical ingredie...

SAICM Launches Project on Best Practices for Chemical Policy Issues of Concern. The project will focus on three components: phase out of lead in paint; lifecycle management of chemicals in products; and knowledge management and stakeholder engagement. The project seeks to accelerate the adoption of national and value chain initiatives to...