Category: 10 June 2022

REACH Update

Glyphosate not a carcinogen, EU panel affirms

Regulatory Update

FSANZ Public consultations

HCF 2022: How can we speed up the regulation of harmful chemicals?

Thailand publishes new standards for food contact plastics

Drafting of the international plastics treaty now underway

FSANZ A1232 – Food derived from drought-tolerant and herbicide-tolerant wheat line IND-00412-7

China Sets out a Regulatory Roadmap to Control New Chemicals

EPA Activates Emergency Viral Pathogen Guidance for Monkeypox Virus

States take new PFAS policy steps as waste industry awaits federal guidelines

The huge problem of microplastics

ISO Publishes Standard on Characterization of CNT and CNF Aerosols for Inhalation Toxicity Tests

Janet's Corner

Mathematical Symbol Fight

Hazard Alert

Methyl Parathion

Gossip

Big tobacco’s environmental impact is ‘devastating’: WHO

Direct sound printing is a potential game-changer in 3D printing, according to researchers

Long-banned toxic chemicals remain a global threat

Sharp cut in methane now could help avoid worst of climate crisis

Honeybee venom cures breast cancer, research finds

Viruses that were on hiatus during Covid are back — and behaving in unexpected ways

Artificial skin gives robots sense of touch and beyond

Cambridge Engineers Develop Zero Carbon Cement

Researchers introduce new energy storage concept to turn high-rise buildings into batteries

Transparency on demand: A novel process can render artificial materials transparent or even entirely invisible

Curiosities

Gene therapy’s comeback: how scientists are trying to make it safer

The amazing benefits from three seconds of weightlifting a day

Your liver stays just three years old on average throughout your life

When a machine invents things for humanity, who gets the patent?

Tracking sleep with a self-powering smart pillow

World’s fastest carbon capture system claims 99% efficiency in ambient air

Who may benefit from climate change? Rattlesnakes, study suggests

Did NASA find Hell? Scientists brace for first glimpse of world that constantly burns

Electrochemical synthesis now possible without electric power source

Alzheimer’s disease causes cells to overheat and ‘fry like eggs’

Technical

Chronic effects of occupational exposure to mineral fibres and recurrent chest infections in insulators

Differences in Fine Particle Exposure and Estimated Pulmonary Ventilation Rate with Respect to Work Tasks of Wildland Firefighters at Prescribed Burns: A Repeated Measures Study

Is occupational asthma caused by low-molecular-weight chemicals associated with contact dermatitis? A retrospective study

Occupational exposure to organophosphate esters in e-waste dismantling workers: Risk assessment and influencing factors screening

Pulmonary toxicity and gene expression changes in response to whole-body inhalation exposure to multi-walled carbon nanotubes in rats

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure and DNA oxidative damage of workers in workshops of a petrochemical group

Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Lung Cancer Incidence: The California Multiethnic Cohort Study

Epigenome-wide DNA methylation signature of plasma zinc and their mediation roles in the association of zinc with lung cancer risk

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure in women seeking in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer treatment (IVF-ET) in China: Blood-follicular transfer and associations with IVF-ET outcomes

Health risk assessment of inhalation exposure to dry fogging of hydrogen peroxide in a dental clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic