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South Korea updates the Regulation on chemical substance classification and labelling
The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea updated the ‘Regulation on chemical substance classification and labelling’ under the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-REACH) and the Chemicals Control Act (CCA) on December 7th, 2022.
The main updates are:
- Revision of toxic substances: substances with unique number “97-1-91”, “97-1-92”, “97-1-271”, “97-1-311”, “97-1-315”, “97-1-334”, “97-1-345”, “97-1-436”, “97-1-451”, “97-1-472”, “99-1-499”, “2000-1-509”, “2001-1-515”, “2001-1-516” and “2008-1-577”
- Addition of toxic substances: substances with unique number from “2022-1-1096” to “2022-1-1109”
- Revision of restricted substances: substances with unique number “06-5-5”, “06-5-6” and “06-5-10”
- Revision of substances requiring preparation for accidents: substances with unique number “1”
The amendment came into effect immediately.
We acknowledge that the above information has been compiled from NIER.
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