Great Britain is no longer part of the EU scheme for regulating biocides. HSE has published a series of fact sheets for companies that want to have access to the market after 31 December 2020. As the existing EU BPR has [...]
LIFE project NARMENA (Nature-based Remediation of Metal pollutants in Nature Areas to increase water storage capacity), co-financed by the European Union, falls within the objective of remediating contaminated soils and sediments in rivers, on riverbanks and on flood plains. ARCHE [...]
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One year ago the Note for Guidance ‘Implementing the concept of biocidal product family’ was put into force. This new family concept has forced everyone to reevaluate the way Biocidal Product Families are formed. The narrowed BPF concept and the subsequent stricter eCa’s [...]
Join the 9th edition of our online BPR Symposium covering different subjects and speakers over a period of 14 days, a fortnight. This new formula gives you the opportunity to keep an optimal focus over the different subjects and provides [...]
The current state of ecological risk assessment (ERA) considers the assessment of effects in standardized toxicity tests for single substances on individual organisms. However, in the environment, chemicals are rarely found alone, and not individual organisms are exposed but populations [...]
The adaptation of the EU Chemical Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) is a first step towards a zero pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment as announced in the European Green Deal. This new piece of legislation reshapes the world in which [...]
Manufacturers and formulators of biocidal products are faced with an ever growing burden to maintain the compliance of their products. Increasingly complicating regulatory requirements are affecting budget and time to market. Authorising your products in a consortium can help decrease these burdens as [...]
The Biocidal Products Committee adopted the opinion of BKC/ADBAC (Benzalkonium chloride - CAS 68424-85-1) and DDAC (Didecyldimethylammonium chloride - CAS 7173-51-5) for Product Type 3 and 4. All companies interested in placing new products or keeping existing products on the [...]
Biocidal products are authorized under Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 where it is imperative to prove that the products used are effective but do not at the same time elicit other undesirable effects on the target organisms such as increased resistance. However, currently there are no guidelines for the assessment of such undesired side-effects. In response, the [...]