General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) validated notifications on 32 batches of imported industrial goods, which were found non-compliant during inspection and quarantine process at the entry ports of China. They have not been offered for sale on the China market yet and are re-dispatched or destroyed instead according to laws. ...

The European Commission validated 264 RASFF notifications this month, including 239 notifications on food, accounting for 90.53%; 19 notifications on feed, accounting for 7.20 %; 6 notifications on food contact materials (FCMs), accounting for 2.27%, in which 3 products from China are contained, accounting for 50.00%. The prime hazards for FCMs are migration of elements and excessive levels of heavy metals. ...

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 21 batches of products in April 2017. There are 9 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 42.86%. ...

In accordance with the General Product Safety Directive 2001/95/EC (GPSD) and Regulation 765/2008, in April 2017 the European Commission validated 179 notifications on dangerous products and transmitted them to the Member States (EU Member States and EEA-EFTA countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway). Most of these concerned products presenting serious risk: 149 notifications (83%). 16 notifications (9%) concerned products presenting less than serious risk and 14 notificat ...

On May 12, 2017, Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China issued the 11th announcement of national standards of this year, releasing 334 national standards, among which 34 items belong to standards of textile and footwear. ...

On May 19, 2017, China Food and Drug Administration issued regulation (2017) No.72, defining that if an imported non-special use cosmetic, which has finished the permit inspection but has not submitted administrative approval documents, is to conduct import filings in Pudong New Area, its survey report can be submitted as a filing material of imported non-special use cosmetics. ...

Recently, a stress-relieving artifact-Fidget Spinner (which is also named as Finger Spinner) - sweep the world. It is a small toy with a symmetric bearing system that can spin on one’s finger.But as the fidget spinner belongs to toys, it has to meet relevant technical regulations or standards before its domestic sale or export, or it may encounter disposal measures like punishing, withdrawing or even destroying. ...

On May 4, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (Oehha) approved the amendment of Proposition 65 to adopt the identification of the No Significant Risk Level (NSRL) for styrene of 27 micrograms per day (μg/day). ...

According to a report of Plastics News on May 15, 2017, the City of New York will enforce the ban on expanded (EPS) food service packaging again on November 13, 2017. ...

On March 23, 2017, the European Commission submitted to the WTO regular notification G/TBT/N/EU/460, intending to amend the EU RoHS 2 Directive (2011/65 / EU) to explicitly stipulate the implementation time and the maximum exemption period of the 11th category of products, and to officially exclude pipe organs, non-road mobile machinery fitted with a cord‑connected traction drive in its scope of RoHS 2. ...