This week’s edition of the Chemical Watch News Podcast sees global managing editor, Kate Lowe, joined by emerging markets reporter, Ginger Hervey, North America managing editor, Terry Hyland, and Europe correspondent, Clelia Oziel.
Subjects under discussion include changes proposed by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration to its Hazard Communication Standard to conform with the seventh revised edition of the UN's Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of classification and labelling of chemicals.
We’ll also be taking a look at a decree published by Chile to implement the UN's GHS, create a national inventory of industrial chemicals and establish a method for risk evaluation of priority substances in the country's Official Journal.
But we start with a proposal from 25 UK industry groups that calls on the UK government to drop its requirement for duplicate data sets of all chemicals under UK REACH, and to instead adopt a new approach that prioritises substances of most concern.