In February 2025, the European Union released Communication Paper C/2025/1032 on the draft Toy Safety Regulation (TSR), which aims to strengthen safety standards for the sale of toys in Europe and wil
Adhesives are widely used in food contact materials and products,but the adhesives used between layers of adhesives or compositematerials have problems such as harmful components migratinginto food, w
On January 6, 2025, the European Union submitted three notifications to the WTO, namely G/TBT/N/EU/1102, G/TBT/N/EU/1103, and G/TBT/N/EU/1103, regarding the revision of high-frequency use exemption cl
On December 19, 2024, the European Commission officially passed a regulation prohibiting the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in food contact materials. This decision is based on considerations of public heal
On October 31, 2024, the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) approved a revised version of the toy safety standard EN 71-3: EN 71-3:2019+A2: The official version of the standard "Toy Saf
On December 29, 2022, the State Administration for Market Regulation (State Standardization Administration) approved the release of GB 28489-2022 "Limits of Hazardous Substances in Musical Instru
On November 20, 2024, based on over 5600 scientific and technical opinions collected by the Risk Assessment Committee and the Socio Economic Analysis Committee during the 2023 public consultation pe
Phenol, isopropyl phosphate (3:1) (hereinafter referred to as PIP (3:1)), and decabromodiphenyl ether (DecaBDE) are one of the five PBT substances listed in the final rules issued by the US Environmen
On November 7, 2024, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) officially announced the inclusion of triphenyl phosphate (TPP) as a candidate substance for SVHC. The number of SVHC candidate substances has
On October 16, 2024, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced that the European Commission of Member States (MSC) had agreed at its October meeting to designate triphenyl phosphate (TPP) as a s
On September 20, 2024, the Official Journal of the European Union published (EU) 2024/2462, which added a new item 79 to Appendix XVII of the EU REACH regulation - perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA), with
On September 25, 2023, the National Health Commission issued a notice including 85 national food safety standards and 3 amendment forms (Health Commission Announcement No. 6 of 2023), of which 17 stan