Japan’s Positive List for Food Contact Materials (FCMs) effective from 1 June 2025

Jun-17-2025

On 1 June 2025, Japan’s Positive List (PL) for FCMs came into force. Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) releases the manual for introduction to the positive list on the portal on...

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Japan adds 50 chemicals to carcinogenic list effective from 1 April 2027

On 6 June 2025, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) published a list of 50 carcinogenic chemicals on the ASEAN-Japan Chemical Safety Database portal. The update was also released...

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Japan: MHLW updates list of substances subject to labelling and SDS delivery requirements under ISHA

Update: On 6 June 2025, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW) published the revised list of 155 chemicals which require labelling and safety data sheets (SDS) on the ASEAN-Japan...

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Japan Launches Consultation to Collect Toxicity Data for Chemicals under CSCL

On 29 May 2025, Japan’s Ministry of Environment (MoE), launched a public consultation to collect toxicity data on chemical substances regulated under the Chemical Substances Control Law (CSCL). The MoE has...

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Japan Releases Updated Guidelines for Revising Standards for Substances in Food-Contact Materials

On 28 May 2025, Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) released updated guidelines relating to Food-Contact Materials (FCMs) under the Food Sanitation Act. The CAA published the guidelines on its official portal....

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Japan Releases further Q&A Document of Positive List for Food Contact Materials (FCM)

Update 2: On 26 May 2025, Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) released an updated Q&A document on its portal for the Positive List for Food Contact Materials (FCMs). This time, the...

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Japan: MHLW updates list of substances subject to labelling and SDS delivery requirements under ISHA

On 16 May 2025, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW) published the revised list of compounds and mixtures that required labelling and safety data sheets (SDS). The list is...

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Japan Publishes Safety Review Procedures for New Substances under Food Contact Regulation

On 14 May 2025, Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) published safety review procedures for new substances used in food contact materials (FCMs) on the portal. These procedures primarily focus on newly...

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Japan Releases Q&A Document to Clarify Provisions of Positive List for Food Contact Materials (FCM)

Update: On 14 May 2025, Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) published a revised Q&A document on its portal to further clarify the provisions of a Positive List for Food Contact Materials...

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Japan revises notification procedure for new chemical substances under CSCL

Update: On 1 April 2025, Japan’s MHLW, METI and MOE jointly published the revised manual for the methods, procedures, and documents to be submitted for notification and application procedures for new...

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