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February 8, 2019
  • Product Stewardship,
  • Global Regulations

Evaluating Novel Products Under Existing Regulations

Maryann Sanders, senior regulatory compliance specialist at Haley & Aldrich, raised this issue during a presentation at Product Stewardship 2017. She described fitting novel products into existing regulations as putting square pegs into round.....
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January 31, 2019
  • Product Stewardship,
  • Emerging Issues,
  • Global Regulations

The Push and Pull of Product Stewardship Revealed

The closing session of Product Stewardship 2018 focused on the two forces that often drive the industry: government regulation and customer demand. Product Stewardship Society President-Elect Lynn Bergeson, Managing Partner of Bergeson
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January 22, 2019
  • Product Stewardship,
  • Global Regulations

Environmental Hazard Tips for Product Stewards

Hazard assessment is one point in risk assessment that Jane Staveley of Senior Managing Scientist at Exponent delved into at Product Stewardship 2018 in her talk Assessing Environmental Hazards: Tips, Tools, and Guidance for Product Stewards...
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January 8, 2019
  • Product Stewardship,
  • Global Regulations

Early Warning Systems for Product Stewardship

Wolfgang Urhahn’s work at HAVI, a major provider of food service packaging, can change on a dime. As Director of Global Compliance and Packaging Safety, Urhahn sometimes has to react when public attention can swiftly fixate on certain compo....
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December 11, 2018
  • Product Stewardship,
  • Global Regulations,
  • Hazard & Risk Communication

A Glimpse of Things to Come: OSHA’s Soon to Be Updated Hazard Communication Standard

In the Trump Administration’s Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Regulatory Agenda) issued on October 17, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.......
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November 29, 2018
  • Product Stewardship,
  • Global Regulations

Navigating California’s Proposition 65

Little did Carla and Richard Kagel know when they met as undergraduate students that they would partner to create K Prime, Inc., one of California’s top chemical testing laboratories. The husband and wife pair shared their experiences helping.....
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March 22, 2018
  • Product Stewardship,
  • Global Regulations

The New TSCA and PMNs: Lessons Learned Since Passage of the Lautenberg Act

TSCA legislation was enacted 40 years ago to regulate any chemicals not regulated by other statutes. In June, 2016, it was finally updated, with a focus on evaluating and regulating existing chemicals. Adrienne Timmel....
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March 15, 2018
  • Product Stewardship,
  • Global Regulations

Nanotechnology Registration: What to do in Asian-Pacific Countries (APAC)

The Asian-Pacific countries (APAC) are among the emerging markets in which companies have taken interest. A number of those countries have existing chemical regulations and chemical inventory lists, but they’re also routinely amended with.....
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February 22, 2018
  • Product Stewardship,
  • Global Regulations

Exempt Your Polymers from Notification (A Strategy)

Why submit notification to a toxic chemical inventory if it’s not required? In many cases, low-concern polymers are exempt from notification, but details in the regulations vary from country-to-country. It’s wo.....
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February 15, 2018
  • Product Stewardship,
  • Global Regulations,
  • Risk Assessment

California’s Safer Consumer Products Program – What Product Stewards Need to Know

One of the stated goals of California’s Safer Consumer Products (SCP) program is to reduce toxic chemicals in consumer products. What makes the program unique is that relies on Alternatives Assessment (AA) fr.....
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December 5, 2017
  • Product Stewardship,
  • Emerging Issues,
  • Global Regulations,
  • Legal

The EU and Product Stewardship Five Years from Now

Earlier this year, Britain began the process of withdrawing from the European Union, a move that raises important questions for companies that do business with both markets. The main concern for product stewards is wh....
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August 10, 2017
  • Product Stewardship,
  • Global Regulations,
  • Supply Chain/Value Chain

Another REACH Deadline and How Product Stewards can Prepare for It

The REACH deadline for registering all chemical imports into the EU at less than 1 metric tonne goes into effect in May 31, 2018. “Many manufacturers of products and chemicals know this and are relying on their supply chain to supp..
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