Dinty the DDT Chimp Part 2: how hazardous is he?
Last week I shared a picture and article on Dint-ty, the DDT chimp, and asked the question whether I was behaving irrationally when I felt a shudder to even think about DDT, which is still a very useful insecticide against malarial mosquitoes. So how hazardous would Dint-ty have been when he was new, and would he have needed […]
Titanium Dioxide update: European Commission Standing Firm
This is an update on the article of 22nd July 2019, which you can read here. The story so far…. Titanium Dioxide is currently considered a non-hazardous chemical, which is used in a multitude of ways, from cosmetics and sunscreens through to the paint on a white car or van. The European Commission has proposed that it should be […]
UFI decoder available
You may have seen that there is a UFI decoder available from a Polish consultancy, at https://www.decoder-ufi.com/. Decoding the UFI will allow anyone to see the company VAT number which has been used, and also the product code. This is incredibly worrying, because the EU taxation website allows anyone who holds a VAT number to look […]
New public database at ECHA for articles containing SVHCs
Brace yourself – yet more chemical legislation is on its way from ECHA. If you make or import articles in the EU, you will probably already be aware that there is an obligation to notify ECHA of this manufacture or importation if: This obligation applies if the substance is present in those articles in quantities […]
Meetings, guidance and webinars on Brexit
This image (c) Osprey Approach With all the drama around Brexit and whether it is going to happen on the 31st October 2019, and if so what form it will take, I thought the best thing to do is to summarise the information and guidance which affects chemicals regulations for you, as things stand at […]
GHS Revision 8: What’s Included
GHS Revision 8 has finally been made available as a free-to-download pdf in English and French. It’s also available to purchase for $67.50 USD from the UN shop, which you should only consider if you’re going to be cutting and pasting out of the pdf (as I do, for review purposes, but then I’m a complete nerd). If […]
When is a CLP Harmonised Classification not enough information for classification?
I’ve recently been reminded that handling Harmonised Classifications can be quite tricky under CLP, so I thought I’d do a quick recap in case it’s something you’re interested in and I know that we have a few email subscribers outside the EU who may not be too sure about this concept. You are probably aware […]
How Transport and CLP-GHS are related
The CLP-GHS Family Tree (c) TT Environmental Ltd, 2019, all rights reserved. One of the questions I get asked regularly is about the relationship between products classified for Transport of Dangerous Goods, that is ADR, IMDG, IATA etc, and products which are classified for CLP (that is GHS within the EU). It can be quite […]
How Transport and CLP-GHS are different
GHS (Rev 7) and Transport classifications, (c) TT Environmental Ltd, 2019, all rights reserved Following on from last week’s email, when we looked at the relationship between Transport of Dangerous Goods (TDG) and CLP, which you can find here, this week, we’ll look at how they are different. As we discussed last week, TDG focusses on […]
How CLP and GHS are related
You’ll probably have seen CLP referred to as CLP-GHS sometimes, and you may be aware of how GHS is the “mother” standard of CLP in the EU. You may even be aware that REACH also plays a part in GHS in the EU, as per the diagram above. But exactly which parts of GHS are […]