ECHA has just made available several new features and improvements in the information on chemicals database.

MSC unanimously agrees that HFPO-DA is a substance of very high concern The Member State Committee (MSC) supported the Dutch proposal to identify HFPO-DA, its salts and acyl halides as substances of very high concern.

New features in REACH-IT are now available.

It is now possible to search for over 300 nanomaterials found in the EU and link them to hazard data in the EUON’s (European Union Observatory for Nanonametirals) website.

In beginning of June, a new directive (Directive (EU) 2019/983) on the protection of the workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens and mutagens at work has been published.

On the last 25th June, a new regulation related to the persistent organic pollutants (POPs) (Regulation (EU) 2019/1021) has been published at the Official Journal.