The April 26, 2012, issue of Pesticide and Chemical Policy quotes Lynn L. Bergeson regarding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) increased use of significant new use rules (SNUR).
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) hosted a webinar today concerning a web-based tool that EPA plans to make available to allow submission of Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Section 8(e) notices via the Internet through EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX) portal. EPA plans to make slides from today's webinar available online. EPA increasingly is seeking submission of notices and reports electronically through the CDX...
April 23, 2012
FDA Issues Two New Draft Guidance Documents on Nanotechnology in Food Substances and Cosmetics
On April 20, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued two new draft guidance documents on the use of nanotechnology in food and cosmetic products -- "Guidance for Industry: Assessing the Effects of Significant Manufacturing Process Changes, Including Emerging Technologies, on the Safety and Regulatory Status of Food Ingredients and Food Contact Substances, including Food Ingredients that are Color Additives," which is available online, and "Guidance for Industry: Safety of...
The April 23, 2012, issue of Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report quotes Lynn L. Bergeson concerning an interim guidance developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that outlines the elements of an offer to pay for the use of inert ingredient data used to meet test orders under the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP).
April 20, 2012
George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center Convenes Panel Discussion on Moving Forward with IRIS Reform
On April 18, 2012, the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center convened a panel discussion entitled Moving Forward With IRIS Reform: Implementing National Academies' Roadmap for Revisions. Panelists included Dr. Lynn R. Goldman, Dean of the School of Public Health and Health Services and former Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Rebecca Clark, M.P.H., Acting Director of EPA's National Center for Environmental...
The April 20, 2012, issue of Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report quotes Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.’s April 19, 2012, memorandum concerning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Pesticide Registration Notice (PR Notice) 2012-1, on material safety data sheets as pesticide labeling.
April 19, 2012
EPA Issues PR Notice Concerning SDSs As Pesticide Labeling to Address Non-Alignment with OSHA’s New HCS (U.S. Implementation of GHS)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is scheduled to publish on April 20, 2012, a Federal Register notice announcing the availability of Pesticide Registration Notice (PR Notice) 2012-1, entitled "Material Safety Data Sheets as Pesticide Labeling." EPA issued the PR Notice on April 9, 2012, and EPA intends it to provide guidance to registrants concerning the relationship between EPA-approved labels for pesticides registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and...
April 17, 2012
EPA Issues Interim Guidance on the Elements of an Offer to Pay for the Use of Inert Ingredient Data
Since the establishment of the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) issuance of EDSP test rules for pesticide active ingredients and pesticide inert ingredients, questions have been raised regarding the procedures for addressing the compensability of data on inert ingredients. For example, on March 14, 2012, EPA published a Federal Register notice concerning the results from the EDSP inert ingredient test orders, in which EPA...
In light of the European Chemicals Agency's (ECHA) recent release of Version 2.0 of its Guidance on Data Sharing, which provides assistance to companies placing substances onto the European Union (EU) market under the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation (EC regulation 1907/2006), and other developments, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. has updated its memorandum on EU and international data compensation and sharing mechanisms. This 35-page...
In light of the European Chemicals Agency's (ECHA) recent release of Version 2.0 of its Guidance on Data Sharing, which provides assistance to companies placing substances onto the European Union (EU) market under the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation (EC regulation 1907/2006), and other developments, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. has updated its memorandum on EU and international data compensation and sharing mechanisms. This 35-page...