Baar (October 9, 2026) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 130.26 on the prohibition of three persistent organic pollutant (POP) chemicals in New Zealand. In March 2026, New Zealand consulted on a proposal to restrict or prohibit three POP chemicals by amending the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms
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Baar (September 23, 2026) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 125.26, focusing on Serbia’s updated chemical restrictions, which further align the country’s legislation with EU requirements. The ‘Regulation on Restrictions and Prohibitions on the Production, Placing on the Market and Use of Chemicals’ establishes restrictions and prohibitions on
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Baar (June 11, 2026) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 078.26, highlighting Japan’s regulation of several persistent organic pollutants (POPs) as Class I Specified Chemical Substances. POPs are persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals that are increasingly subject to prohibitions and restrictions due to their harmful environmental and health
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Baar (June 9, 2026) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 077.26, focusing on the prohibition of three persistent organic pollutant (POP) chemicals in South Korea. Notification No 2026-107 was issued by the country’s Minister of Climate, Energy and Environment (MCEE) in April 2026. It partially amended the Regulations
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Baar (April 9, 2026) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 045.26, outlining New Zealand’s plans to restrict three persistent organic pollutant (POP) chemicals, in line with recent changes to the Stockholm Convention. In May 2025, three chemicals were added to Annex A (Elimination) of the Convention, subject to
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Baar (February 12, 2026) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 015.26, summarizing Singapore’s ban on three persistent organic pollutant (POP) chemicals – with limited exemptions – that becomes effective in December 2026. POP chemicals are toxic substances that persist in the environment and accumulate in living organisms. As
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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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Geneva (July 31, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 108.25, reporting on the EU’s listing of UV-328 as a revision to Regulation 2019/1021 on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) Recast Regulation. Recognized as toxic chemicals, POPs resist degradation and accumulate in the environment, posing significant risks to human
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Geneva (June 23, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 078.25, outlining the UK’s latest amendment to its retained Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Regulation, which allows the continued use of two restricted substances in medical technology applications. Effective May 21, 2025, Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations
Geneva (May 28, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 064.25, highlighting Switzerland’s prohibition on the production and use of three persistent organic pollutant (POP) chemicals. The use of POP chemicals, often in flame retardants or pesticides, has declined in many parts of the world due to their
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