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On October 24, 2022, EU regulation to reduce limit values for the presence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in waste was adopted.
On September 30, 2022, Provincial Government of Zhejiang's Department of Ecology and Environment in China released a draft plan for new pollutant control to seek public comments.
On 18 October 2022, the European Commission adopted its 2023 Commission work programme (CWP) which largely focuses on setting targets towards achieving sustainable goals by prioritising key legislative proposals.
On October 12, 2022, a manifesto calling for EU Member States and the Commission to urgently ban PFAS, the ‘forever chemicals’, in consumer products by 2025 (and across all uses by 2030) was launched bu European civil society organisations.
On September 13, 2022, Thailand's Ministry of Industry published the latest draft “Notification of Ministry of Industry: Reporting of Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) B.E. 25XX” for pubic consultation.
On September 30, 2022, South Korea’s Ministry of Employment and Labor (MoEL) published the new chemical substances recently registered and assessed under its Occupational, Safety and Health Act (K-OSHA) (Listed as serial number 22-22-124 to 22-22…
On October 6, 2022, South Korea’s latest revision to the "Regulations on the classification and labeling of chemical substances" was published.
On September 15, 2022, WTO was notified about Vietnam's Draft National Technical Regulation on thresholds for Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
On October 14, 2022, safety measurements and evaluation was performed for dichloromethane (also known as methylene chloride, or DCM) by the Canadian authorities, exposures to which have been suspected to pose a risk to human health.