August 30, 2012

In general, (M)SDS writing norms in these three countries or areas, EU, China and USA, are based on the United Nations’ GHS standard. Both the EU and China maintain all 16 sections in a complete Safety Data Sheet consistent with the UN GHS, while the US SDS adopts only 12 sections, i.e. Section 12/13/14/15 are not so mandatory as the other ones.

In general, (M)SDS writing norms in these three countries or areas, EU, China and USA, are based on the United Nations’ GHS standard. Both the EU and China maintain all 16 sections in a complete Safety Data Sheet consistent with the UN GHS, while the US SDS adopts only 12 sections, i.e. Section 12/13/14/15 are not so mandatory as the other ones.

In the product stewardship of a hazardous chemical product, when asked “what is your principal regulatory duty”, most clients immediately think of a Safety Data Sheet or a chemical precautionary Label based on local standards. Yet not so many come to realize your hazard classification is actually the real pre-requisite that underlines all the other GHS compliance activities.

August 29, 2012

In China, seven CRC-MEP drafted national standards on ecotoxicological testing have entered into force since 1st this August. The seven GB/T (nationwide recommended) standards respectively specify the testing methods of ready biodegradability, degradation screening, biodegradation screening, soil Koc estimation using HPCL, arobic and anerobic transformation in soil and aquatic sediment systems, and fish acute toxicity.

Subtle changes made to the policy of emergency phone service for China’s new hazardous chemicals registration are making some registrants confused: How do I arrange my emergency phone service in view of China’s new hazardous chemicals registration?

August 24, 2012

SAWS to Enforce More Severe Punishment for Non-Compliance of the Revised HC Registration Measures

August 23, 2012

China releases plan to formulate and revise a bunch of national standards: GB 13690 to be revised again and the first GB standard on GHS classification for chemical hazard to the ozone layer is officially put on the agenda

20 August 2012

China is beginning from 2012 the formulation and revision of two compulsory national standards (so called GB standards) regarding China GHS classification, according to a recent ministerial notice issued from China’s Standardization Administration (SAC) on August the 13th. The two GBs will go together with in all over two thousand compulsory (1,124) and recommended (1,052) national standards which SAC has determined to lay down by 2014 as a first group of its 2012 national standard plan.

A three-month special inspection over 127 companies of hazardous chemicals is launched in Tianjin in early August focusing on the involved major hazard installations and newly built factories equipped with hazardous chemicals process technologies

14 August, 2012

In Tianjin, a three-month special inspection over 127 companies of hazardous chemicals has recently been planned by the city’s administration of work safety, according to news from ccin.com.cn. The special check will focus on the involved major hazard installations and newly built factories equipped with hazardous chemicals process technologies.

9 August, 2012

China is implementing from July 2012 a new state fund on the disposal treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) products, according to a joint notice published by five Chinese departments in the middle May of 2012. Domestic producers and import consignees of six groups of products – TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines, air-conditioners and computers – now face a WEEE fund ranging from ¥7 to ¥13 per machine or part units. Also, companies that have been certified for the disposal treatment of WEEE products will enjoy a national allowance for their WEEE disposal treatment.

August 6, 2012