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Switzerland Further Aligns Chemical Risk Reduction Ordinance with EU Standards

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Baar (December 19, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 180.25, reporting on Switzerland’s update of several provisions under its Ordinance on the Reduction of Risks Relating to the Use of Certain Particularly Dangerous Substances, Preparations and Articles (ORRChem). The revision brings Swiss regulation further in line with

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SGS Explores Updates to Kenya’s PVoC Program

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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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Revision to EU CLP Regulation on Substances and Mixtures Proposed

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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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EU Proposes Ban on Three POP Chemicals

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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

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

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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 expands UK capabilities with new state-of-the-art consumer goods testing facility in Manchester

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Baar (December 9, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is pleased to announce the opening of its new cutting-edge, UKAS-accredited testing facility in Manchester. The new laboratory strengthens SGS’s capabilities in hardlines and electrical and electronic (E&E) product testing, helping manufacturers and retailers comply with UK and international regulatory requirements.

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ECHA Adds Flame Retardant to Candidate List of SVHCs

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Baar (November 19, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 164.25, focusing on the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) addition of decabromodiphenyl ethane (DBDPE), a flame retardant, to its Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHCs). Announced on November 5, 2025, the move increases the total number

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EU revises rules on polybrominated flame retardants under POP Recast Regulation

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Geneva (November 13, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 162.25, focusing on the EU’s amendments to the scope and unintentional trace contaminant limit (UTC) values for five flame retardant chemicals in its persistent organic pollutants (POP) Recast Regulation. These polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants are used

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Japan Proposes Ban on Three Persistent Organic Pollutants

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Geneva (October 31, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 155.25 to inform stakeholders that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and other competent authorities intend to designate three persistent organic pollutants (POPs), as Class I Specified Chemical Substances under the Law Concerning the Evaluation of Chemical

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