In accordance with the updated Industrial Safety and Health Act (ISHA), which will go into effect on April 1, 2024, Japan enacted occupational exposure limits and risk assessment standards for 67 chemicals.
Risk assessment
New Zealand issued a proposed new EPA notice on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) on February 20, 2023.
- A New Method for Environmental Risk Assessment of Pollutants Based on Multi-Dimensional Risk Factors
The journal of toxins published a research article titled “a new method for environmental risk assessment of pollutants based on multi-dimensional risk factors” on 15 September 2022.
Authors of this article have expressed an urgent need for regulatory authorities around the world to be inclusive of the most up-to-date scientific methods of chemical risk assessment by reconsidering (i) potential subthreshold responses, (ii)…