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No Hints Dropped in California’s Economic Assessment of the Safer Products Law

May 31, 2013Kirsten Wallerstedt

California’s Safer Consumer Products (SCP) regulations recently underwent the required economic impact analysis in order to complete the Economic and Fiscal Impact Statement (Notice File Number Z 2012-0717-04).

The FDA Considers How Best to Weather Risks in the Medical Device Supply Chain

May 16, 2013Mujadala Abdul-Majid

While the Security Exchange Commission and international regulatory bodies, such as the Organization for Economic Cooperative Development (OECD), have been uncharacteristic drivers of upstream supply chain compliance issues affecting the sourcing of medical device materials, public health regulatory agencies are deliberating over downstream concerns of “critical” medical device product shortages.

EU and Canada Consider Conflict Minerals Rules

April 4, 2013Kirsten Wallerstedt

The European Union and Canada may soon join the United States in requiring certain companies to perform due diligence to investigate whether minerals that are used in their products originated in conflict-affected or high-risk areas.

Reviewing 2012 and Looking Forward to the New Year

January 16, 2013David Don

Through the various regional Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) Conferences I attended in 2012 – which included Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, Maryland and Pennsylvania – there were some themes and comments from the many talented EH&S professionals I encountered.

Conflict Minerals Disclosure Rule May Be Reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals

December 21, 2012Kirsten Wallerstedt

The SEC’s Dodd-Frank conflict minerals disclosure rules may come under legal scrutiny. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), and the Business Roundtable (BRT) petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review Section 1502 of the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, concerning conflict minerals.

Supply Chain Compliance: Defining an Emerging Discipline and Exploring Requirements for Conformance

November 27, 2012Connie Prostko-Bell

Supply chain compliance is an umbrella term describing the discipline emerging to manage the evolving business condition in which access to the environmental, health, safety and social risks of raw materials and finished goods becomes a critical component of transactions and customer/supplier relationships.

Hope from the Heart of Darkness: How Dodd-Frank is Changing the Regulatory Landscape

August 22, 2012Connie Prostko-Bell

This morning the SEC voted 3-2 to adopt rules regarding disclosure and reporting obligations with respect to the use of conflict minerals to implement the requirements of Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

FDA Removes Five Food Contact Substances and Bans BPA from Baby Bottles and Sippy Cups

July 31, 2012Scott Stephens

The FDA was very active in July, announcing on July 2, 2012 that BASF, DuPont, and Clariant Corporation have agreed to stop producing or selling five perfluorinated grease-proofing agents as food contact substances.

EU Introduces New Biocides Framework

July 26, 2012Scott Stephens

Companies will have until September 1, 2013, the day the European Union’s updated biocides legislation applies, to prepare for the provisions it introduces.

US-Senate Environment Committee Approves TSCA Reform Bill

July 26, 2012James Lee

On July 25, 2012, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed the amended version of the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 bill (S. 847) to overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) by increasing reporting obligations of chemical manufacturers and processors and giving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) more authority to remove harmful substances off the market.

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