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Massachusetts Finalizes Ban on Certain Flame Retardants in Consumer Products

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Geneva (June 9, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 072.25, summarizing the recent final regulation issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under the law known as Chapter 261 of the Acts of 2020. This rule restricts the use of 11 specified flame retardants (FRs) in five categories […]

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Australia Consults on Six Additions to IChEMS Register

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Geneva (May 21, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 062.25, focusing on the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water’s (DCCEEW) announcement proposing the listing of six chemicals/groups of chemicals to the country’s Industrial Chemicals Environment Management (Register) Instrument 2022. The proposal was open

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Flame Retardants in Proposed Revised Specifications for EU POP Recast Regulation

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Geneva (March 5, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 034.25, examining the EU’s consultation on replacing unintentional trace contaminant (UTC) limits for several flame retardants. The proposals are open for comments until March 18, 2025. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are a class of synthetic brominated compounds, primarily

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Flame Retardants in Certain Products to be Regulated in US State of Georgia

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Geneva (February 13, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 020.25, reporting Georgia’s proposals to regulate flame retardants in certain consumer goods. HB 9, the ‘Safer States Act’, was introduced on January 13, 2025. If approved, it would revise Chapter 15 of Title 25 of the Official Code

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