If you are a regulatory compliance professional, you are likely monitoring close to 36,865 regulation changes in any given year. So it’s no surprise that staying on top of chemical inventory regulatory changes and reporting deadlines has become a full-time job.

As of June 2021, the European Commission approved Alkyl (C12-16) Dimethylbenzyl Ammonium Chloride (ADBAC) as an active substance for use in biocidal products of product types 3 and 4 subject to the specifications and conditions set out in the Annex.

Yordas Insight has updated the online course on global biocide legislation for 2021. The e-learning course helps importers and manufacturers of disinfectants and sanitisers to comply with existing and new emergency regulation, and gain swift market access for their product. Updates of derogations from ECHA and in Germany and The Netherlands mean that the course keeps you up to date with the latest information.

Yordas Group, the international provider of scientific, environmental, human health, global regulatory and sustainability services has announced the launch of a German-language website www.yordasgroup.de.

If you’re based in Great Britain and manufacture, import, sell or distribute chemical substances or mixtures you’ll need to follow the UK REACH regulation and comply with a number of new obligations.

On the 1st January 2021, the EU cosmetic product regulation EC No.1223/2009 will no longer apply to companies placing cosmetic products on the UK market.  A new UK cosmetics regulation will come into force.  

The Brexit Transition Period is set to end on the 31st December 2020. As things stand, starting 1st January 2021, the EU Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation will cease to apply in Great Britain (GB); in its place, a GB version is anticipated to come into force (GB-CLP).

The Biocide Product Committee (BPC) has recommended the approval ADBAC/BKC and DDAC for use in two disinfectant product types:

• Type 3 (animal hygiene products such as disinfectants and oral or corporal hygiene products ) and 

• Type 4 (equipment, containers and surfaces needed in the production, transport, storage or consumption of food or feed for people and animals). 

While the new legislation will be similar to the EU BPR, there are some actions you need to take quickly to ensure the continuity of your supply chain of biocides in the UK.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a surge in demand for disinfectants, so a number of countries fast-tracked the supply chain of products by relying on special provisions in biocidal regulations

The requirement for companies to update their REACH registration dossiers ‘without undue delay’ is in most cases specified by the European Commission (EC) as 3 months. In more complex cases, the deadline for updates is up to 1 year. The clarification was made on Monday 12 October 2020, and it enters into force 60 days after the announcement. Yordas’ experts can help you monitor regulatory changes and keep compliant.