California has defined and added to the Proposition 65 list two additional chemicals known to be carcinogens:

• molybdenum trioxide (CAS No. 1313-27-5)
• indium tin oxide (CAS No. 50926-11-9)

The basis for the listing was described in a public notice published in the October 9, 2020 issue of the California Regulatory Notice Register (Register 2020, No. 41-Z).

A complete, updated list of Proposition 65 chemicals is available on the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment/OEHHA

ECHA has introduced an upper limit of 1,000 components per dossier for reporting in the SCIP database. This is to ensure that only articles that actually contain confirmed SVHCs from the candidate list are submitted. All dossiers with more than 1,000 components submitted so far will not be processed until further notice and the submitters will receive a request to revise the dossier. “Quality over quantity” is the objective here. The goal, ECHA says, is not to have as many notifications as

The rollout of IMDS Release 13.0 scheduled for March 10 has been postponed to May 19, 2021. The reason is that various in-house integrators have asked for a prolongation of the integration and test period.

With this release postponement, the following changes have also been postponed:

• Rec019 MDB Deactivation - postponed to May 19, 2021
• Material classification deactivation - postponed to May 19, 2021
• "Metal Wizard" feature will be postponed to a later date or subsequent release.

We will

On 28 October 2020 the SCIP database will go online and the first SVHC notifications can be submitted. All data entered into the prototype since February will then be deleted. As proclaimed by ECHA, the notification obligation for affected products will enter into force on 5 January 2021. When the notification obligation comes into force, a notification must be available in the SCIP database for all products on the market on that date. This means that companies now have just over two months to

On 2 October nine more pure substances were added to the REACH Annex XIV list. The list of the substances concerned can be found here.

Five of these substances are suspected to be toxic for reproduction, two are PBT substances (a chemical that is persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic) and another two are vPvB substances (a chemical that is very persistent and very bioaccumulative).

All substances on the REACH Annex XIV list are subject to authorisation. For the new substances on the list