2025

SGS Explores Updates to Kenya’s PVoC Program

Trade Facilitation Services /

Baar (December 16, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published an article reporting on stakeholder engagement workshops that support collaboration and enhance compliance with Kenya’s pre-export verification of conformity (PVoC) requirements. As part of SGS’s ongoing commitment to supporting businesses through product conformity services and regulatory updates, two workshops

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SGS Highlights Updated Regulatory Requirements for Saudi Arabian Cosmetics

Cosmetics & Personal Care /

Baar (December 16, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published an article outlining how businesses can successfully respond to Saudi Arabia’s updated cosmetic regulations through the country’s product conformity assessment (PCA) program. The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) has updated its list of restricted and prohibited substances. With

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SGS explains the hidden benefits of outsourced quality control for cosmetics

Cosmetics & Personal Care /

Baar (December 16, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, reports on outsourced quality control (QC) for cosmetics as a valuable tool to ensure product success. With the cost and complexity of product development already demanding considerable resources, companies can be diverted from core business activities by having to secure regulatory

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Revision to EU CLP Regulation on Substances and Mixtures Proposed

Consumer Products /

Baar (December 12, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 178.25, focusing on the EU’s published draft update to the Classification, Labeling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures (CLP) Regulation, which proposes 38 new entries and revises 10. The CLP Regulation is in place to ensure the classification

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Modified Law on Food Contact Materials for the Netherlands

Hardlines /

Baar (December 12, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 176.25, reporting on the Netherlands’ revision of its Commodities Act on food contact materials (FCMs) and articles. An amendment was made on November 25 to the Commodities Act (Regulation on Packaging and Consumer Products). This amendment replaces Regulation

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EU Proposes Ban on Three POP Chemicals

Consumer Products /

Baar (December 12, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 175.25, summarizing the EU’s consultation on three draft laws to revise its legislation on persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The proposed listing of chlorpyrifos, medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs) and long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids (LC-PFCAs) (and its related salts and compounds),

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Consumer Goods PFAS Regulated in Washington State

Consumer Products /

Baar (December 12, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 174.25, highlighting the U.S. state of Washington’s adoption of a rule to regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in 12 priority consumer products. PFAS, sometimes known as ‘forever chemicals’, are a family of substances, some of which are

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New Consumer Product Safety Act for Japan In Effect

Hardlines /

Baar (December 10, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 179.25, reporting on Japan’s Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA), which takes effect on December 25, 2025. The CPSA applies new requirements to toys intended for children under 36 months. After December 25, 2025, they must be marked with

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Health Canada Updates Table 2 of the General Prohibitions Process under the CCPSA

Connectivity /

Baar (December 10, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 177.25, reporting on the addition of button/coin battery containing product and their packaging to Table 2 in Health Canada’s Approach to the General Prohibitions under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA). Table 2 provides performance criteria such

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SGS Opens First Comprehensive Toy Testing Laboratory in Cambodia

Hardlines /

Baar (December 10, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is delighted to announce the opening of a new testing laboratory in Phnom Penh. The new facility, which will provide the first full physical and chemical testing service for plush and costume toys in Cambodia, will be open for applications in

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