On December 1, 2020, the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES) announced the results of an assessment of R-Nano, France’s national reporting scheme for substances in nanoparticle form. In 2013, France began requiring companies that manufacture, import, and/or distribute a “substance with nanoparticle status” in an amount of at least
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NGOs Call for France to Require Labeling and Restriction of Consumer Products
By Lynn L. Bergeson & Carla N. Hutton on
Posted in International, Legal/Regulatory Issues
According to a July 12, 2017, press release, a coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGO) wrote to the French Prime Minister and several ministers to call for labeling and restriction of nanomaterials in consumer products. The NGOs request that three measures be taken “as a matter of urgency”:
- Temporarily ban titanium dioxide particles present in
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