This week’s Chemical Watch news podcast sees Asia desk editor David Macfarlane, North America managing editor Terry Hyland and science editor Andrew Turley join global managing editor Kate Lowe to discuss the latest developments.
On the agenda is the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment's release for consultation of its draft technical guidelines that set out the principles, procedures and technical requirements for selecting new and existing chemical substances subject to priority assessment.
We also discuss how a court filing by the US EPA has given the clearest indication yet of how the agency plans to revisit TSCA risk evaluations completed under the previous administration to address worker protections and environmental justice concerns.
But the edition begins with preliminary results from unpublished industry research which suggest the "vast majority" of commercial grades of titanium dioxide will not meet the criteria for the new mandatory harmonised category 2 carcinogenicity classification under EU CLP.