The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea updates 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 December 12, 2022. This is to provide updated classification on product type based on diversified antimicrobial and disinfectant for humidifiers. Also, this is to update approval application data by specifying the approval application data.

The main updates are:

• Change the product type from ‘antimicrobial and disinfectant for humidifiers’ to ‘disinfectant and preservatives for humidifiers’
• Provide definition of ‘preservation treatment product for humidifiers’
• Clarification of the submission requirements for approval application data on ‘disinfectant and preservatives for humidifiers’ and ‘preservation treatment product for humidifiers’
• Establishment of numbering standards as the expansion of approved products

The amendment came into effect immediately.