United Kingdom’s (UK) Chemicals regulatory framework (UK REACH) is effective from 1st January 2021. United Kingdom (UK) will no longer be a part of European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) or the European (EU) regime from the 1st January 2021. Instead UK […]
The government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) introduced regulatory controls on some product categories introduced into their market. The standardization body is The Emirates Authority for Standardization and Metrology (ESMA) for regulating the restriction of hazardous substances in electrical […]
RMI(Responsible Mineral Initiatives) has released revised version of Cobalt Reporting Template CRT 2.2 on 28th October 2020. The first version of the CRT was launched on December 21, 2018. CRT is developed by RMI to identify choke points and collect […]
RMI (Responsible Mineral Initiatives) has released a new reporting template MICA REPORTING TEMPLATE (MRT 1.0) on 28th October 2020. This is the third reporting template released by RMI, the other two are CMRT and CRT. Mica is widely used in […]
A Safety Data Sheet (formerly called Material Safety Data Sheet) is a detailed informational document prepared by the manufacturer or importer of a hazardous chemical. It describes the physical and chemical properties of the product. SDS contains useful information such […]
To begin with, let us understand what market surveillance means. Market surveillance is a way to prevent and protect the securities market from any type of illegal or harmful practices. Without market surveillance, buyers are sellers would be hesitant to […]
European Chemical Agency, ECHA has updated the candidate list of substance of very high concern for authorisation, in accordance with Article 59(10) of REACH regulation Annex XIV. On 25th June 2020, below 4 new chemicals added to SVHC list, making […]
We regularly use various products most possibly containing so-called conflict minerals—rare natural resources such as tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold (3TG), the mining and trade of which results in financial conflicts and human abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo […]
The International Material Data System (IMDS) is an online platform used by the automotive companies in order to manage their data on materials and substances of automobile parts.The IMDS Steering Committee has published several recommendations to define materials for creating […]
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large family of synthetic chemicals widely used in the society. PFOA is one of those families present in PFAS. Since they contain Carbon chain of different lengths and the Hydrogen atoms are completely or […]