Category: 17 March 2023

REACH Update

Authorities and ECHA push for compliance with authorisation duties

Regulatory Update

A busy time for food recalls

EPA Proposes SNUR For PFAS Designated As Inactive On The TSCA Inventory

EPA tightens rules for toxic firefighting foams

Unacceptable co-formulants

Proposed EPA notice: persistent organic pollutants

French NGO Claims Certain Everyday Products Contain Unlabeled Nanomaterials

FSANZ Public consultations

Forever Pollution Project maps Europe’s PFAS contamination

New EPA plan to deal with wandering and in-state air pollution

OECD publishes workshop report on flexible food-grade plastic packaging

EPA Announces Reinvoicing 2023 Annual Pesticide Registration Maintenance Fee To Meet Statutory Direction

EPA Requests Comment On NAMs To Screen For Endocrine Effects

EPA Announces Stakeholder Engagement Opportunities On IRA Programs To Reduce Embodied GHG Emissions Associated With Construction Materials And Products

Janet's Corner

Electron Color

Hazard Alert

Potassium Fluoride

Gossip

“Plasticosis:” New disease in birds highlights dangers of microplastics

Water purification membrane generates electricity as it filters

New Sensor Can Diagnose Cancer Using Urine

High seas treaty: historic deal to protect international waters finally reached at UN

Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in toilet paper around the world

Astronomers Discover Missing Link: Water on Earth Is Even Older Than Our Sun

‘Dead’ Electric Car Batteries Find a Second Life Powering Cities

A tiny fish is more genetically diverse than we thought. Here’s why that matters.

Bio-inspired “plasmonic paint” could make regular paint a thing of the past

Gigantic map of fly brain is a first for a complex animal

Curiosities

Scientists think Nickelback helped kickstart life on Earth

Bitter news: Concurrent, increasing, climate hazards could impact global coffee supply

Flies evolved before dinosaurs—and survived an apocalyptic world after the Permian extinction

The mice with two dads: scientists create eggs from male cells

How Tokyo’s Farms Have Survived for Centuries

Would a smart toilet leak your private info?

Drunk Mice Get Sober Fast After a Simple Shot

New ‘camera’ with shutter speed of 1 trillionth of a second sees through dynamic disorder of atoms

The Future of Computing Includes Biology: AI Computers Powered by Human Brain Cells

What Makes Brown Rice Healthy? Scientists Unveil the Secrets to Its Nutritional Wealth

Technical

EU need to protect its environment from toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances

Possible accumulation of critical metals in plants that hyperaccumulate their chemical analogues?

Methodological advances and future directions of microalgal bioassays for evaluation of potential toxicity in environmental samples: A review

Source, occurrence, distribution, fate, and implications of microplastic pollutants in freshwater on environment: A critical review and way forward

Ecotoxicological QSAR study of fused/non-fused polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (FNFPAHs): Assessment and priority ranking of the acute toxicity to Pimephales promelas by QSAR and consensus modeling methods

Prevalence of microplastics in commercially sold soft drinks and human risk assessment

Exposure to non-persistent pesticides and sexual maturation of Spanish adolescent males

Combined toxic effects of environmental predominant microplastics and ZnO nanoparticles in freshwater snail Pomaceae paludosa

Intermittent Lead Exposure Induces Behavioral and Cardiovascular Alterations Associated with Neuroinflammation

Phytotoxicity of Bisphenol A to Allium cepa Root Cells Is Mediated through Growth Hormone Gibberellic Acid and Reactive Oxygen Species