Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision issued linkage supervision results for products with filling materials in Shanghai on 25 September 2015. The inspection checks the formaldehyde content, PH value, decomposable ar ...

A batch of wood toys from a Ningbo toy company are notified by France at the beginning of August 2015 as the thickness of its plastic packaging was less than that in the requirements. Such noncompliance can easily cause suffocation hazard. ...

Echa took the first steps in drawing up its next recommendation for REACH authorisation, at its meeting, last week. It assessed priorities for inclusion in the REACH authorisation list of candidate list substances and presented the results t ...

China Food and Drug Administration issued notification (No. 66 of 2015) regarding 14 batches of mooncakes and 2 batches of bee products on 22 September 2015. The inspection involves 360 batches of moon cakes, 14 batches of which prove to be ...

On 24 July 2015, Shandong Weihai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau found the migration nickel exceed the limit during the inspection of 700 Korean small home appliances (valued at USD 39,720) such as multifunctional blender and min ...

On 22 July 2015, Guangzhou Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine issued a document that 18 batches of food contact materials (FCMs) failed during the inspection in the first six months this year due to presence of melamine and excessive migra ...

On 16 September 2015, International Electrotechnical Commission issued IEC 62321-7-1:2015 to describes a boiling water extraction procedure intended to provide a qualitative determination of the presence of hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) in colourless and coloured corrosion-protection coatings on metallic samples. ...

The French Constitutional Court said that Regulation 2012-1442 (issued on 24 December 2012) that banned the manufacture and export of food contact materials (FCMs) containing bisphenol A (BPA) was unconstitutional. Consequently, the part of ...

CEN (European Committee for Standardization) passed EN 16711-1:2015 Textiles - Determination of metal content - Part 1: Determination of metals using microwave digestion and EN 16711-2:2015 Textiles - Determination of metal content - Part 2: ...

Helsinki, 15 September 2015: SEAC agreed its draft opinion, in support of the proposal by Germany and Norway, to restrict the manufacture, marketing and use of PFOA, its salts and PFOA-related substances, as well as of articles and mixtures ...