The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea consults on a draft amendment of ‘the results of hazard review of chemical substances’ under the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-REACH).

The draft amendment mainly proposes revisions including:

• Notification of the results of hazard review of registered chemical substances
  • Addition of 52 new substances from “2022-172” to “2022-223”
• Revision of 37 notified new substances by adding additional information
• Notification of information on classified substances: the name of chemical substances, CAS no., toxic substance designation, main hazard, classification and labeling, etc

If you have any opinion on this amendment, please write your opinion and submit it to the NIER.

The deadline for this consultation is Aug 11th, 2022.