59 sign up to CEFIC Action Plan
CEFIC has announced that, to date, 59 chemical producers in Europe have signed up to the Action Plan to re-evaluate their chemical safety data, which it launched in late June.
ECHA adds four to Candidate List
The European Chemicals Agency has added four new substances to the Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHCs) for authorisation under REACH.
UL unveils HazLoc expansion
UL has opened its newly expanded and fully automated hazardous locations (HazLoc) testing and certification laboratory at its global headquarters site in Northbrook, Illinois.
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VECAP issues code of best practices
The Brussels-based Voluntary Emission Control Action Programme (VECAP) used the occasion of the 15th anniversary of its foundation by launching a new code of best practices for flame retardants.
Envigo and Covance in asset swap
Envigo’s Research Models Services business is to acquire the Research Products business of LabCorp’s Covance subsidiary, becoming a pure-play research models and services business. As part of the same transaction, Covance is also acquiring Envigo’s non-clinical research services business, expanding its services in that field.
ICCA calls for chemical ‘navigator’
The International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA), meeting at Montevideo, Uruguay, has called for the creation of a global repository of publicly available information on chemicals, or ‘international navigator’.
