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Transform consumer product safety compliance with SGS at ICPHSO 2025

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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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Reformulation of Chemicals in Consumer Products under California Proposition 65

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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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Three POP Chemicals Regulated in Japan

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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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Proposal to Regulate PFAS in Products in the US State of Maine

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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 Analyzes the Problem with Forever Chemicals

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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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An SGS Guide to Digital Product Passports

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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published a Consumer Compact article detailing the drive to sustainable fashion and highlighting the vital role of the Digital Product Passport (DPP). With the Green Deal and the Eco-design for Sustainable Products Regulation, the EU’s focus on supply chain transparency, sustainability, and traceability will profoundly

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US CPSC Publishes Final Rule for Implementation of eFiling of Certificates of Compliance

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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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EPA Final Rule on Perchloroethylene in the US

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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 187.24 reporting on the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule 89 FR 103560, which regulates the use of the solvent perchloroethylene (PCE). PCE, also known as perc or tetrachloroethylene, is a colorless liquid used in consumer applications such as adhesives and brake

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Complete Ban on Trichloroethylene Issued by US EPA

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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 186.24 to summarize the final rule issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban trichloroethylene (TCE). TCE was among the first ten chemicals reviewed by the EPA in 2016 under the U.S. Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Typically, it has been

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Several Chemicals Added to the Australian IChEMS Register

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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 179.24 to provide businesses operating in Australia with an update on regulated chemicals in consumer products. On December 2, 2024, the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) issued an amendment to Australia’s Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) Instrument 2022

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