The 13th revision of the REACH Candidate List (CL) has now been published by European Chemical Agency (ECHA) with the addition of two substances on 15, June 2015. ECHA included these two substances to the CL based on the proposals […]
The 13th version of the REACH Candidate List (CL) is expected to be published in June 2015 with more additions. Since suppliers or product manufacturers are continuously monitoring the CL to keep their product in compliance with REACH, it’s always […]
Further to our earlier piece on CMRT v4.0 (Refer the 2nd half of this article), we now share with you the changes made on CMRT v4.01a. With ongoing feedback and several inputs from the suppliers and manufacturers, CFSI has now […]
With a clear objective to strengthen the Health care filings for 2015 and to help healthcare companies to meet the requirements of Section 1502, led us to analyze 2014 filings. We used sample data from 409 Health care companies, registered […]
1st June 2015 is the deadline for manufacturers to update all their MSDS to SDS and today, just a few days away from the deadline, we thought it would be useful to share some our thoughts about the importance of […]
As we draw closer to the 12th version of the Candidate List (CL), we realize that continuous monitoring of CL holds tremendous benefits for the Suppliers or Product manufacturers. In a broader view, the monitoring process allows them to steer […]
Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (RCOI) is the important step in identifying the origin of conflict minerals in your supply chain. Most affected companies by this regulation have done the step at different scale of effectiveness during the 2013 reporting […]
While the previous version of RoHS directive did not require any special mark to demonstrate RoHS compliance, under the recast, it became mandatory that all equipment covered by RoHS must now bear the CE mark. As a symbol, CE mark […]
Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) has been around in several industries for past several years and Companies have been putting in considerable effort and resources to comply with this regulation. With RoHS 2 being adopted, there has been extension in […]
In addition to the Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (RCOI), the heavy lifting in conflict mineral compliance is the effort to survey your suppliers to gather Conflict Mineral Reporting Templates (CMRT). Industry has spent enormous amount of time in reaching […]