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EU REACH CMR Substances List Updated

Geneva (August 26, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 121.25, focusing on the European Union’s (EU) revision of its Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Annex XVII list of carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic (CMR) category 1A or 1B substances. The revisions prohibit the use of […]

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Revisions to the Authorized French List of Substances for Rubber Food Contact Materials and Pacifiers

Geneva (August 26, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 120.25, reporting on a new Order regulating rubber food contact materials (FCM)/articles and pacifiers for young children in France. A notice revising the list of substances in Annex VIII of the Order of August 5, 2020, was issued

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DEHP Regulated in Certain Medical Devices in North Carolina, USA

Geneva (August 21, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 119.25, summarizing North Carolina’s ban on di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) in intravenous (IV) bags and tubing. SB 600 (session law 2025-60) was signed on July 3, 2025, regulating DEHP in IV solution containers and tubing. This amendment adds Article

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Chile Proposes Changes to Food Contact Material Rules

Geneva (August 20, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 117.25, highlighting Chile’s plans to strengthen regulations on food contact material (FCM) and related articles. A public consultation to replace Title XXX under the country’s Food Sanitary Regulations (Decree 977/96), which contains general and specific requirements for FCMs

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UK Updates Furniture and Furnishings Fire Safety Regulations

Geneva (August 14, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 085.25, summarizing the UK’s latest updates to its fire safety framework for domestic furniture and furnishings. On April 30, 2025, the UK Office for Product Safety and Standards released statutory guidance on the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety)

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Azerbaijan Introduces New Standards for Food Contact Materials

Geneva (August 13, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 116.25 to keep stakeholders informed about Azerbaijan’s new standards and rules for food contact materials (FCMs) and articles. Azerbaijan’s Food Safety Agency (AFSA, Azərbaycan Respublikasının Qida Təhlükəsizliyi Agentliyi) issued Decision of the Board No. 56 of May 20,

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Webinar delivers compliance essentials for recycled plastics and NIAS in food contact materials

Geneva (August 11, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is pleased to host a complimentary live webinar, ‘Navigating the Challenges of Using Recycled Plastics and Managing NIAS in Food Contact Materials’, on September 4, 2025. The increasing use of recycled plastics in food contact materials (FCMs) reflects the food contact

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Explore Updates to Japan’s CPSA and Its Implications for Overseas Businesses

Geneva (August 11, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is pleased to host a complimentary webinar, ‘Japan’s Consumer Product Safety Act: Key Updates and Implications for Global Companies’, on August 21, 2025. In 2025, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) introduced important revisions to the Consumer Product Safety

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EFBE and SGS unite to set new standards in bicycle and e-bike compliance

Geneva (August 6, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is pleased to announce that EFBE Prüftechnik GmbH and EFBE Co., Ltd. (collectively EFBE) have joined the SGS family. This move expands SGS’s global capabilities in the bicycle and e-bike sector. Based in Waltrop, Germany, with a subsidiary in Taichung, Taiwan,

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Food Contact Materials Law Updated in The Netherlands

Geneva (August 5, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 111.25, which details changes to the Netherlands’ Commodities Act (Regulation on Packaging and Consumer Products) regarding food contact materials and articles. The Regulation of the State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport of June 12, 2025, reference number

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