The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea consults on a draft amendment of ‘the Regulations on the approval for consumer chemical products subject to safety verification’ under the Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides Safety Control Act (K-BPR) on November 1^st, 2022. This is to provide updated classification on product type based on diversified and new antimicrobial and disinfectant for humidifiers. Also, this is to rationalize approval application data by specifying the approval application data.

The draft amendment mainly proposes revisions including:

• Segmentation of products such as antimicrobial and disinfectant for humidifiers
• Clarification of the submission requirements for approval application data
• Establishment of numbering standards as the expansion of approved products
• Clarification of interim measures for preservative treatment products for humidifiers

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

The deadline for this consultation is Nov 21st, 2022.