Technical Regulation on Bacteria-based household cleaning products

At a meeting last month of stakeholders involved in ASTM International, a global standards organization, researchers shared data and expressed progress related to a 2015 safety standard for labeling and packaging laundry packets, an increasingly popular consumer product.On June 12, the group (known as the subcommittee on liquid laundry packets) rev...

On behalf of the Rethink Plastic alliance, Meadhbh Bolger, resource justice campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe, said:“The environment committee has recognised that the Commission’s plans to tackle plastic pollution must be strengthened to protect our oceans. Today’s vote gives a strong signal that more can and must be done ...

The purpose of this regulation is to establish standards of labelling requirements and labelling methods for cleansing & hygiene products. The proposed amendments seek to: Establish labelling standards for each of two hygiene products (disposable panty liner and dry tissue for wet wipes) that take into account the characteristics of the two hyg...

In December 2016 the European Commission requested ECHA to prepare an Annex XV restriction dossier on Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4) and Decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5). A call for evidence to support the preparation of this Annex XV dossier was open on the ECHA website from 03/05/2017 to 03/08/2017. In February 2018 the European Com...

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Air Pollution Control (DAPC) has proposed amended rules in Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) chapter 3745-112, "Consumer Products Rules Program" to the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review (JCARR). The rules in this chapter establish limits on the quantity of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that...