Amendment to Chemicals Act enters into force
Germany has prepared the ground for the national enforcement of the EU CLP regulation with the amendment of the Chemicals Act which has entered into force on 8 November 2011. The regulation lays down new provisions for the classification and labelling of hazardous substances on the basis of a UN-wide agreed system. 
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Cooperation in field of human biomonitoring
Since 2010 the Federal Environment Ministry BMU and the German Chemical Industry Association VCI have been cooperating in a joint project to increase knowledge on substances that are taken up by the human body. Now, the cooperation partners have decided on five additional substances for which a measurement method is to be developed for the first time. more
Data on human exposure to pollutants needed
At symposium on Human Biomonitoring (HBM) in September 2010 in Berlin Federal Environment Minister Röttgen and Federal Environment Agency president Flasbarth stressed the important role of HBM as early warning system and policy monitoring device. HBM surveys investigate public exposure to chemicals and other harmful environmental impacts detrimental to public health. more
Protection of consumers from carcinogenic substances to be improved
Again and again consumer and environmental protection organisations detect carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a wide range of consumer products. A German initiative now aims to ban the health hazard to consumers presented by these substances.
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