SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 018.25 to provide an overview of the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) addition of five substances and revision of one substance on the Candidate List. The Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHC) includes chemicals that can cause harm to people, animals […]
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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 015.25, highlighting Thailand’s plans to designate Dechlorane Plus and UV-328 as persistent organic pollutants (POP) under the Category 3 hazardous substances list. UV-328 services a wide variety of applications as a UV absorber, helping protect surfaces against discoloration and degradation from UV/sunlight exposure.
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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 011.25, reporting on three communiqués relating to Turkey’s Risk-Based Control System for Foreign Trade ((Dış Ticarette Risk Esaslı Kontrol Sistemi, TAREKS), the country’s platform for electronically conducted safety and quality inspections on imported goods. Issued on December 31, 2024, by Turkey’s Ministry of
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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is proud to announce it is a sponsor at the 2025 Annual Meeting and Training Symposium organized by the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO). This year’s theme, ‘Fostering Bridges Within the Product Safety Community, ’ will unite regulators and key industry operators from
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Geneva (January 24, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 009.25 to keep stakeholders informed on multiple settlements for a range of products containing California Proposition 65 (Prop 65) listed chemicals. First published in 1987 and updated at least once a year since, California’s ‘Safe Drinking Water and
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Geneva (January 24, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 006.25, highlighting Japan’s designation of three persistent organic pollutant (POP) chemicals as Class 1 Specified Chemical Substances. Methoxychlor is a bioaccumulative pesticide toxic to aquatic life. Dechlorane plus is a flame retardant commonly used in electronics and cars,
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Geneva (January 24, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 007.25, summarizing Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection’s proposed rule to implement its ‘Products Containing PFAS’ law. The law aims to protect human, animal and environmental health from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), so-called ‘forever chemicals’. It was originally
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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published a Consumer Compact article on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), often called ‘forever chemicals’. With the dangers of many PFAS chemicals now widely accepted and media coverage increasing, the hazards they pose to human, animal and environmental health are now a matter of global
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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 189.24, highlighting the US Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) approval of its final rule on the implementation of electronic filing (eFiling) of certificates of compliance (CoC) for regulated consumer products. The new rule was published in the Federal Register on Jan 8, 2025.
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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 188.24 to summarize the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)’s final rule 89 FR 103512 regulating the use of the carbon solvent tetrachloride (CTC). CTC was one of the first ten chemicals evaluated by the EPA under the amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
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