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) on Dec 21st, 2022.
The updates on chemical substance names are of the following 347 substances:
The main updates on new substances are as follow:
1) Updates on chemical substance name, etc: "2015-84", "2016-15", "2016-284", "2017-169", and "2021-87"
2) Removal of chemical substance: "2015-45"
3) Updates on hazard information: "2016-87", "2016-153", "2016-196", "2016-235", "2016-502", "2016-540", "2016-668", "2016-990", "2017-245", "2017-448", "2017-450", "2017-490", "2017-952", "2018-175", "2018-260", "2018-533", "2018-694", "2019-107", "2019-348", "2019-889", "2020-170", "2020-176", "2020-223", "2020-229", "2021-19", "2021-61", "2021-161", "2022-43", "2022-122", "2022-131", "2022-134", "2022-149", "2022-161", and "2022-162"
4) Addition of chemical substances: from "2022-224" to "2022-279"
The main updates on existing substances are as follow:
1) Updates on unique number: "2020-020", "2021-058", and "2021-166"
2) Updates on toxic substance unique number: "2022-207", "2022-208", "2022-209", "2022-210", "2022-211", "2022-212", "2022-213", "2022-214", "2022-215", "2022-216", "2022-218", "2022-219", "2022-220", "2022-221", and "2022-222"
3) Updates on hazard information: "2021-051", "2021-052", "2021-053", "2021-054", "2021-069", "2021-088", "2021-094", "2021-115", "2022-203", "2022-204", "2022-205", and "2022-207"
4) Addition of chemical substances: from "2022-312" to "2022-338"
The amendment came into effect immediately.