chemical management Articles
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Chemical management the North American way
With so much attention focused on the European Union’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulations, US domestic manufacturers may be less aware than they should be of regulatory efforts in North America. In August 2007, the United States, Canada, and Mexico entered into a regional agreement for assessing and managing potential chemical risks. The new ...
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Comments on K-REACH and Lessons from EU REACH
As with many countries, Korea is pursuing a chemicals management approach that ensures substances being placed on its market are assessed for risk potential based on its use patterns while placing the burden of safe use on chemical ...
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Comment on Regulating Industrial Chemicals: Lessons for U.S. Lawmakers From the European Union's REACH Program
It is entirely appropriate to consider how the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals Program (REACH) may influence reconsideration of the U.S. chemical regulatory environment, and the report provides some critical insights. But REACH is not the only consideration — Canada’s Chemical Management Plan should be considered as well. Further, REACH should be ...
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Comment on Regulating Industrial Chemicals: Lessons for U.S. Lawmakers From the European Union`s REACH Program
It is entirely appropriate to consider how the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals Program (REACH) may influence reconsideration of the U.S. chemical regulatory environment, and the report provides some critical insights. But REACH is not the only consideration — Canada’s Chemical Management Plan should be considered as well. Further, REACH should be ...
By Acta Group
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Sustainable Development and the Importance of Chemicals Management in the 21st Century: An Overview
A&WMA’s international specialty conference Sustainable Development and the Importance of Chemicals Management in the 21st Century, which was held December 7–9, 2004, in Ottawa, Ontario, focused on both the positive and negative aspects of managing chemicals from the points of view of human health, the environment, and industry. This issue of EM includes three of the papers presented at the ...
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TSCA Reform: Grounds For Optimism
In a rare showing of bipartisan support for reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), senators David Vitter (Republican-Louisiana) and the late Frank Lautenberg (Democrat-New Jersey) recently introduced the Chemical Safety Improvement Act (CSIA). The bill offers a new and potentially politically viable framework for TSCA reform and renewed hope that needed modernisation of this important ...
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Zameer Qureshi Presents “The European REACH Regulation – Basic Concepts and Key Issues for NACD Members”
On February 22, 2018, Zameer Qureshi, Legal Consultant to The Acta Group EU, Ltd (Acta EU), presented “The European REACH Regulation – Basic Concepts and Key Issues for NACD Members” at a National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) webinar. This presentation covered an overview of the European Union’s (EU) chemical management regulation program, Registration, ...
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Webinar - Best Practices in Chemical and MSDS Management
Companies face many hurdles today when it comes to chemical management. This 45-minute webinar will discuss the factors, tools, and techniques to minimize the burden of chemical data management and boost the impact of compliance, safety, and regulatory reporting initiatives. Led by chemical management specialists from SiteHawk and Compliance Optimizers, this webinar will outline a best ...
By SiteHawk
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Toxic Substances Control Act Reform: Shimkus Releases Discussion Draft of TSCA Reform Legislation
On April 7, 2015, Representative John Shimkus (R-IL), Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, released a Discussion Draft of the "TSCA Modernization Act of 2015" (TMA DD). In the previous Congress, Shimkus introduced first a discussion draft of the Chemicals in Commerce Act (CICA1), and then a revised discussion draft of the bill, CICA2. In addition, ...
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Data Citation and Compensation: How REACH Compares With the FIFRA Scheme
The European Union’s REACH regulation is a complex chemical management regulation intended to replace approximately 40 previously existing legal instruments with a single EU regulatory scheme for all chemical substances (both new and existing substances). It also creates a data compensation scheme for entities that must rely upon studies another entity generated to complete their ...
By Acta Group
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Best Practices for Chemical Management
Introduction The costs of managing chemicals are far more than just the product price, but the life-cycle management of chemicals can be optimized to cut these peripheral costs. By adopting best practices, the chemical management process is more integrated into the business process, becoming a strategic advantage to the organization, raising efficiency on a number of fronts, decreasing legal ...
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Japan’s new era of chemical management - coming up this April
2010 and 2011 will be challenging years for companies manufacturing, importing or handling chemical substances in Japan. Major amendments 20 May 2009 to the “Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture, etc” (or Chemical Substances Control Law), sometimes referred to as Japanese REACH, will soon come into effect in two phases: 1 April 2010 and 1 April 2011. ...
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GTZ chemical management guide for small and medium sized enterprises. Improve chemical management to gain cost savings, reduce hazards and improve safety
Preface This Guide is of interest to companies who want to gain cost savings and reduce risks in the workplace with respect to chemicals used during production. It is especially relevant for companies where chemicals represent a major portion of their running costs. By improving the management of chemicals, companies can lower production costs, improve product quality, reduce their environmental ...
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2012 Predictions for TSCA Reform and EPA Initiatives
We offer our thoughts on what may be headed our way in 2012 with regard to reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and chemical management initiatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP). Not surprisingly, the 2012 presidential election cycle will influence activities in Congress by bothparties and ...
By Acta Group
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2011 Predictions for U.S. Chemicals Management
The trends established by the Obama administration will continue despite the Congressional midterm elections in November, says Lynn L. Bergeson. The elections’ impact, notably the new Republican majority in the House and the razor thin Democratic majority in the Senate, will nonetheless have an important, but uncertain impact on the US Environmental Protection Agency. Early indications are ...
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2012 Predictions for TSCA Reform and EPA Initiatives
We offer our thoughts on what may be headed our way in 2012 with regard to reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and chemical management initiatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP). Not surprisingly, the 2012 presidential election cycle will influence activities in Congress by bothparties and ...
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Comparative study of biodegradability prediction of chemicals using decision trees, functional trees, and logistic regression
Biodegradation is the principal environmental dissipation process of chemicals. As such it is a dominant factor determining the persistence and fate of organic chemicals in the environment, and is therefore of critical importance to chemical management and regulation. In this study, we developed in silico methods assessing biodegradability based on a large heterogeneous set of 825 organic ...
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Expanding TRI Section 313
More companies need to make 313 reports come next year. On Nov. 26, 2010, EPA issued a final rule adding 16 chemicals to the list of chemicals subject to reporting under Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), and Section 6607 of the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990. Background EPCRA Section 313 requires facilities that manufacture, process or otherwise ...
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State and Local Governments Step Into Toxics Regulation
According to the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), federal inaction on chemicals management and regulation has spurred state and even local government entities to step into toxics regulation. CIEL issued a position paper last May, Cloudy Skies, Chance of Sun: A Forecast for U.S. Reform of Chemicals Policy, predicting exactly this result. CIEL points to the fact that at least six ...
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Water and Wastewater Chemical Management - Case study
Objective Our MCE analytics platform uses existing chemical tank level data for chemical management and monitoring on water and wastewater sites. By monitoring the rates of change in tank levels, we automatically work out if tanks are emptying or being filled. So, we can calculate chemical consumption and applied dose rates using existing telemetry or SCADA data. This is up and running on more ...
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