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New Board of Appeal decisions concerning vertebrate animal testing on cosmetic ingredients

The ECHA Board of Appeal has adopted two important decisions which examine the links between REACH and the Cosmetics Regulation with regard to the requirements for testing on animals.

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CLP

New intentions to harmonise classification and labelling

Two intentions have been received for:

ethanol; ethyl alcohol (EC 200-578-6, CAS 64-17-5); and
tert-butyl 2-ethylperoxyhexanoate (EC 221-110-7, CAS 3006-82-4).

Registry of CLH intentions until outcome

Six EU countries now accept poison centres notification through ECHA's portal

Poland is the latest Member State to join the list of EU countries accepting poison centre notifications through ECHA’s Submission portal. Find the contact details of all national authorities on the national support page.

National support

PIC

Survey: What information do you need on import and export of hazardous chemicals?

We would like to hear your feedback on our web pages that give information on the import and export of hazardous chemicals in the EU under the Prior Informed Consent Regulation.

The aim is to understand how you use the web pages and how we can improve them with better navigation or additional information. The results of the survey will be used to develop new and improved web pages that are foreseen to go live in 2022. Reply by 30 September 2020.

Take the survey | ECHA: chemicals subject to PIC

Persistent organic pollutants

New persistent organic pollutant added

The organochlorine pesticide dicofol (EC 204-082-0, CAS 115-32-2) has been added to the regulation on the persistent organic pollutants (POPs) without specific exemptions.

The entry for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid and its derivatives (PFOS) (EC 206-397-9 and others, CAS 335-67-1 and others) has also been amended with regards to a specific exemption for its use in hard chromium (VI) plating in closed loop systems.

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