Category: 24 June 2022

REACH Update

European Commission: Current food contact materials regulation “sub-optimal”

Time to break up with toxic makeup

Regulatory Update

Commission supports the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance to reduce EU dependency on Russian gas

Melbourne e-commerce business fined $13k for unauthorised imports

Commission launches infringement proceedings against the UK for breaking international law and provides further details on possible solutions to facilitate the movement of goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland

APVMA approves emergency permit for RHDV2 (calicivirus) vaccine for rabbits

European Commission issues long-awaited update to definition of nanomaterials

Hong Kong to reform workplace health and safety regime

EU and Egypt step up cooperation on climate, energy and the green transition

Colorado bans PFAS, establishes EPR scheme for packaging

Washington State regulating chemicals of concern in food packaging

Health Canada Takes Steps to Secure Biocides in Canada

EPA Announces New Drinking Water Health Advisories for PFAS Chemicals, $1 Billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding to Strengthen Health Protections

Janet's Corner

Oxidation

Hazard Alert

Arsine

Gossip

EPA: ‘Forever chemicals’ pose risk even at very low levels

No signs (yet) of life on Venus

The signals that make cells self-destruct

Electricity and data over-the-air: The simultaneous transmission of 5G and power

Inside Clean Energy: Solid-State Batteries for EVs Make a Leap Toward Mass Production

AI identifies cancer cells

Newly identified population of polar bears survives on glacier slush, not sea ice

MIT’s new heat engine has no moving parts — is as efficient as a steam turbine

A weird star produced the fastest nova on record

Polluted air cuts global life expectancy by two years

Curiosities

Dead star’s cannibalism of its planetary system is most far-reaching ever witnessed

New designer cells could advance treatments for illness and disease

Study suggests a beer a day can increase diversity of gut bacteria

Tin in Permanent Contraception Implants Causes Toxicity

Spilling the Tea: Insect DNA Shows Up in World’s Top Beverage

New work upends understanding of how blood is formed

Mistletoe berries may hold the secret for creating a biological super glue

Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else

Has COVID affected your sleep? Here’s how viruses can change our sleeping patterns

The benefits of exercise in a pill? Science is closer to that goal

Technical

Drinking water sources and water quality in a prospective agricultural cohort

Elastin Degradation and Lung Function Deterioration with Remote Secondhand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Never-smokers

Current status and high-risk factors of blood-borne occupational exposure among midwives in China: A cross-sectional survey

Integrated approaches to testing and assessment for grouping nanomaterials following dermal exposure

[Responses of Cd Accumulation in Rice and Spectral Characteristics of Soil Dissolved Organic Matter Regulated by Soil Amendments]

Exposure patterns among Coast Guard responders to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A latent class analysis

Associating Increased Chemical Exposure to Hurricane Harvey in a Longitudinal Panel Using Silicone Wristbands

Microbial diversity and metaproteomic analysis of activated sludge responses to naphthalene and anthracene exposure

What Dermatologists Should Know About Thiazides

Soil ecotoxicology needs robust biomarkers – a meta-analysis approach to test the robustness of gene expression-based biomarkers for measuring chemical exposure effects in soil invertebrates