Green Chemistry: Verdant is pleased to announce its sponsorship of the Prop.65 Clearinghouse Green Chemistry Annual Conference. This year’s conference will be held on Tuesday, April 9, 2013, at the The City Club of San Francisco, 155 Sansome Street. Verdant attorney, Philip Moffat, will present on “REACH 2013.” Verdant attorney, Catherine Lin, will present on “Supply […]
The Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse (IC2) has released a draft guidance document for alternatives assessment and risk reduction. The public comment period continues through Friday, May 3, 2013. The IC2 is an association of state and local governments working together to coordinate inter-agency efforts promoting the use of safer chemicals and products. Of the member states, […]
Major updates to California’s rigid plastic packaging container (“RPPC”) regulations went into effect at the start of the new year, adding over 500 million plastic containers to the program’s regulatory reach. The California Rigid Plastic Packaging Container Act was first passed in 1991 to encourage recycling and reuse and to reduce the amount of virgin […]
TSCA/SNUR/Nanotechnology: Background Continuing its robust exercise of its expansive TSCA authority, EPA last week released proposed Significant New Use Rules (“SNURs”) under TSCA for 37 chemicals, including 14 nanoengineered carbon compounds. The SNURs cover a wide range of uses, including the manufacture, processing, and import of adhesives, coatings, colorants, lubricants, chemical intermediates, etc., and result […]
Last week, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a unanimous decision vacating a 2008 Biological Opinion by the National Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”) that supported use restrictions on certain pesticides near the habitat of endangered Pacific salmon. In Dow AgroSciences v. National Marine Fisheries Service [PDF], the Fourth Circuit held that the Biological […]
This is the second in a two-part analysis on China’s new Pharmaceutical Excipient Measures. Part One is available here. On February 5, 2013, SFDA circulated for comment the first batch of 28 excipients that are subject to registration. This list covers gel capsules as well as excipients used in sterile injectable formulations — those derived […]
Chemical Regulation/Innovation: Earlier this month, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) released its report, Driving Innovation: How stronger laws help bring safer chemicals to market. In the report, CIEL offers research showing that stronger laws foster innovation by large and small companies alike. Among other things,CIEL cites the number of patents for alternative chemicals filed every […]
This is the first of a two-part analysis on China’s new Pharmaceutical Excipient Measures. Part Two is available here. On February 1, 2013, China’s “Measures to Strengthen the Supervision of Pharmaceutical Excipients” (Notice No. 212, 2012) (“Pharmaceutical Excipient Measures” or the “Measure”) came into force. This Measure was issued by the State Food and Drug […]
EU REACH Substances of Very High Concern: Last week, the EU Commission released its Roadmap on Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC). The Roadmap outlines a process for identifying and assessing potential SVHCs within the following categories: substances that are carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction (CMRs); substances that are persistent, bioaccumulative or toxic for […]
California Green Chemistry Regulations: California EPA and DTSC have announced a public meeting on the draft regulations. The meeting will occur on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. See announcement embedded below. CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY COUNCIL NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Department of Toxic Substances Control’s Safer Consumer Products Proposed Regulations Need for a Multimedia Evaluation […]
