Casey Costello, New Zealand's Minister, is exploring a cigarette tax freeze and removing the excise tax on smokeless tobacco products.
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The Ministry of Health delivered a document to New Zealand First's Associate Health Minister, Casey Costello, outlining a proposal to halt annual tobacco tax hikes for three years. These taxes increase annually in tandem with inflation.
Manufacturers, importers, distributors, and retailers of regulated products such as smoked tobacco, vaping, herbal smoking, and smokeless tobacco products must maintain sales records and submit annual reports and returns to New Zealand's Vaping…
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is proposing changes to the Hazardous Substances (Importers and Manufacturers) Notice 2015 to improve the management of hazardous chemicals.
New Zealand retailers are preparing for the implementation of new regulations on disposable e-cigarettes, potentially displacing 300,000 units by landfill. Over 600 specialized e-cigarette stores may have to discard 10 million devices.
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are extremely toxic chemicals that are persistent in the environment and accumulate in people and animals.
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants recently introduced a new substance. The substance is Perfluorohexane sulfonic acid (PFHxS), as well as its salts and compounds that are linked to it.
At its tenth meeting in June 2022, the parties to the Stockholm Convention decided to add a new chemical, perfluorohexane sulfonic acid (PFHxS), its salts, and PFHxS-related compounds to the list of chemicals subject to restrictions under the…
New Zealand issued a proposed new EPA notice on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) on February 20, 2023.