Category: 3 February 2023

REACH Update

Guidance on REACH

Completeness check of REACH registration dossiers: what changes in 2023 and how you can prepare

Regulatory Update

3M to phase out ‘forever chemicals’ PFAS by 2025

Variations to Inventory listings after evaluation: CAS 84434-22-0 and 145-39-1

Studded tires to be banned from Reykjavik in bid to cut air pollution

Removing an Inventory listing after evaluation: CAS 608-93-5

Safety assessment of the process Polyfab Plastics, based on Starlinger deCON technology, used to recycle post‐consumer PET into food contact materials

Removing an Inventory listing after evaluation: CAS 118-74-1

Commission sets up rules to identify endocrine disruptors and long-lasting chemicals and to improve labelling

Chemicals added to the Inventory 5 years after issue of assessment certificate – 10 January 2023

‘A drop in the ocean’: England bans some single-use plastics – but does it go far enough?

EPA Announces Release of New PFAS Analytic Tools

EPA Proposes to Add PFAS Subject to TRI Reporting to List of Chemicals of Special Concern

EPA Updates New Chemical Review Program Webpage, Metrics, Affirming Commitment to Increased Transparency

Janet's Corner

A year without lab accidents is a good year! Wear your gear!

Hazard Alert

Chromium

Gossip

A fairy-like robot flies by the power of wind and light

Green hydrogen produced with near 100% efficiency using seawater

A Completely New Way To Kill Cancer: Artificial DNA

Tire Dust Is the ‘DDT Of Our Generation’

Monitoring an ‘anti-greenhouse’ gas: Dimethyl sulfide in Arctic air

Peptide spray kills bacteria in wounds without using antibiotics

For More Sustainable Affordable Housing, Just Add Mushrooms

An ALS patient set a record for communicating via a brain implant: 62 words per minute

The World’s Farms Are Hooked on Phosphorus. It’s a Problem

Supercharged T Cells: A New Way To Kill Pancreatic Cancer With Minimal Side Effects

Curiosities

Forget red meat, red seaweed might be the vital food needed on our plates

How antidepressants help bacteria resist antibiotics

Coffee with milk may have an anti-inflammatory effect

Metal robot can melt its way out of tight spaces to escape

Scientists release newly accurate map of all the matter in the universe

What time is it on the Moon?

How Do Heavy Metals Like Lead Get in Baby Food?

What will it take to give babies a phthalate-free start in the world?

Device transmits radio waves with almost no power—without violating the laws of physics

Color-changing material could warm or cool buildings

Technical

Remediation and characterization of emerging and environmental pollutants from residential wastewater using a nature-based system

Pollution and occupational protection of diesel particulate matter in underground space

An urgent health problem of indoor air pollution: results from a 15-years carbon monoxide poisoning observed study in Jinan City

The impact of N-nitrosamine impurities on clinical drug development

Associations of selenium exposure with blood lipids: Exploring mediating DNA methylation sites in general Chinese urban non-smokers

Risk assessment of chemicals and their mixtures are hindered by scarcity and inconsistencies between different environmental exposure limits

Biomarkers for occupational manganese exposure

Chemical speciation determines combined cytotoxicity: Examples of biochar and arsenic/chromium

Review on distribution, fate, and management of potentially toxic elements in incinerated medical wastes

Application of validated migration models for the risk assessment of styrene and acrylonitrile in ABS plastic toys