AAFA RELEASES 18TH EDITION OF RESTRICTED SUBSTANCES LIST

On the 16th of March the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) released the 18th edition of the AAFA Restricted Substances List (RSL) the industry’s chemical management resource for banned or restricted chemicals and substances in finished home textile, apparel, and footwear products around the world. The list is available for all industry professionals Updated

ECHA OFFICIALLY PUBLISHES THE SIXTEENTH BATCH SVHC CANDIDATE LIST

On the 12th of January 2017 The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) added four new Substances to be included in the Candidate List of Very High Concern (SVHCs), The substances are BPA, PFDA and its sodium and ammonium salts, p-(1,1-dimethylpropyl)phenol and 4-heptylphenol, branched and linear. As no unanimous agreement was reached by the MSC on the SVHC identification