Mr. Kamlesh Patil

Ms. Ingrid Dorini

Mr. Sabyasachi Chakraborty

The importance of having a solid PC data package to support human health/environmental risk assessment and read across under REACH

News from ECHA’s Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) – Adoption of Opinion on Harmonised Classification and Labelling for MWCNTs

For hazards of highest concern (e.g., carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, reproductive toxicity), the European harmonised classification and labelling (CLH) system is set […]

Initial reflections on a way forward to update the REACH Annexes in relation to endocrine disruption properties – OPEN FOR FEEDBACK UNTIL 16 NOVEMBER

The European Commission is looking for comments on its intention to update REACH data requirements for identifying and assessing endocrine […]

Implementing Regulation (EU/2020/1435) on the duties placed on registrants to update their registrations along with proposed deadlines under the EU REACH Regulation

Article 22(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH regulation) places a responsibility on registrants (whether individual registrants or the lead […]

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (EC- JRC) tender to collect and organise mechanistic knowledge related to the toxicological effects on target organs observed in animal models after repeated exposure to chemicals

In recent years, considerable progress has been made towards promoting the development, validation, acceptance and use of alternative approaches to […]

Nanomaterials in cosmetics – The next priority of the Commission?

Since a number of new developments have taken place in the area of nanomaterial safety research, the EC Scientific Committee […]

Requirement of second species testing for evaluating developmental toxicity potential

Over the last decade, there has been ongoing debate on the regulatory requirement of a second-species testing requirement to identify developmental toxicity. A recent article by Braakhuis et al. (2019) has questioned the reproducibility of developmental toxicity results and the comparison approach using NOAELs. The current insight attempts to present the state-of-the-art information on the ongoing discussion.

Regulatory Strategy and Compliance

Joint EFSA/ECHA guidance document for the identification of endocrine disruptors under EU Biocides and Pesticides Regulation

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) jointly published in June 2018 the long-awaited guidance for the identification of endocrine disruptors.