The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea updates ‘the results of hazard review of chemical substances’ under the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-REACH). This update is mainly on new substances.

The main updates on new substances are as follows:

1) Updates on chemical substance name, etc: “2019-144", “2019-178", “2019-179", “2020-203" and “2022-21"

2) Updates on hazard information, etc: “2016-32", “2016-210", “2016-337", “2016-498", “2016-877", “2016-1126", “2017-33", “2017-286", “2017-311", “2017-414", “2017-548", “2017-589", “2017-812", “2018-523", “2018-699", “2019-148", “2019-200", “2019-257", “2019-315", “2019-452", “2019-466", “2019-821", “2020-47", “2020-230", “2021-26", “2021-27", “2021-38", “2021-78", “2021-84", “2021-178", “2022-102" and “2022-114"

2) Addition of 52 substances and their hazard information: from "2022-172" to "2022-223"

The amendment came into effect immediately.