INTERNATIONAL
JECFA reports on food additives and contaminants
IARC assesses carcinogenicity of some industrial chemicals
IARC reports on mycotoxins in the developing world
OECD workshop on categorising nanomaterials
EUROPE
REACH…
…Updated guidance on (quantitative) structure-activity relationships
…Consultations on four potential substances of very high concern (SVHCs)
…Restriction proposal on octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4) and decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5)
…Other items of interest
Classification and labelling…
…Proposals for harmonised classification and labelling
…RAC opinions on classification and labelling
Biocidal Products Regulation
…BPC opinions on active substances
…Comments requested on candidates for substitution: Cyanamide and PHMB
…September deadline reminder for active substances in articles
…Request for interest in four active substances in disinfectants
…New tools for estimating environmental emissions of biocides
JRC report on non-animal methods for detecting pre/pro-haptens
EFSA/WHO reviews the threshold of toxicological concern (TTC) approach
EFSA identifies potent carcinogens
EFSA draft dietary reference values (DRVs) for choline and vitamin B6
EFSA assessment of the food-contact materials α-tocopherol acetate…
…and zinc oxide nanoparticles
EFSA evaluates chlorine dioxide as a preservative
EFSA concludes on the pesticides fenamidone, isoxaflutole and mesotrione
EFSA renewal assessment reports (RARs) on the pesticides benzoic acid, bifenazate and imazosulfuron
EFSA assessments on several animal feed additives
Herbal product assessments from EMA
ANSES opinion on glyphosate carcinogenicity
DECOS evaluates carcinogenicity and genotoxicity of two substances
UNITED KINGDOM
PHE issues toxicological summaries
COM statement on ‘mutation spectra’
UNITED STATES
EPA issues draft IRIS review on toxicity of RDX
EPA releases initial assessment on 1-bromopropane…
…while NIOSH proposes exposure limit
California Adopts ‘No Significant Risk Level’ (NSRL) for DINP
ACGIH occupational exposure values – 2016 updated booklets
REST OF THE WORLD
Health Canada evaluates sulphur dioxide