Dutch Safety Board calls for furniture fire safety requirements after investigating a home fire in which two people died. A man and his 4-year old son were killed by toxic smoke in an apartment building fire in Arnhem, The Netherlands, on New Year’s Eve 2020, when a...
ISO 1043-4 (Plastics) has been updated to specify separate identification of the brominated FR HBCD. The international standard ISO 1043-4 (2021) “Plastics – symbols and abbreviated terms – part 4: flame retardants” is now amended to add two specific new FR families:...
An EU general public consultation on smart phone & tablet Ecodesign priorities is open to 23 August 2021. This consultation targets smart phone and tablet users (general public) and companies and organisations involved in manufacture, servicing, recycling or other...
Over 100 companies and organisations have defined and endorsed six principles for access to information on chemicals. The principles have been developed by a stakeholder coalition, led by Clean Production Action (CPA), over the last 18 months, and other companies and...
Scientists of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment question the scientific basis of the new EU Chemicals Strategy, in particular the hazard-based approach. The eight scientists suggest that the new Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) was developed...
