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Joined Apr 2022
Our Management Board has concluded the appointment process of our new Executive Director, Dr Sharon McGuinness. She will start her first five-year term at ECHA on 1 December 2022.
Read the news🔗 https://fcld.ly/mcsharonmcguinnesst
Congratulations! Our Management Board has re-elected Paul Krajnik from @BMKlimaschutz, Austria, to chair the board for the next two years.
RT @EU_ECHA: We are moving towards a more resource-efficient and safer #CircularEconomy. #SCIPdatabase provides waste operators information about substances of very high concern in products and will help to improve the re-use and recycling of materials. Take a look! 🔗 https://echa.europa.eu/scip-database
RT @EU_ECHA: Iceland has joined us! Altogether 28 EU and EEA countries are now accepting poison centre notifications through our submission portal. If your country is not accepting notifications yet, contact your national helpdesk. 👉https://poisoncentres.echa.europa.eu/appointed-bodies?utm_campaign=Poison+centres+national+support+May+2021&utm_source=Twitter.com&utm_medium=Facelift.com
RT @EU_ECHA: The European Commission is looking for feedback on a draft act that would introduce new hazard classes as part of its revision to the #EU_CLP Regulation. #EUHaveYourSay by 18 October 2022.
RT @EFSA_EU: Today's the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss & Waste, or #FLWDay. The EU reduces food waste by:
✅revising rules on 'best before' and 'use by' dates
✅proposing legally binding targets for food waste by 2023
✅investigating food loss in production
#EUChooseSafeFood
👏🏻🎉A warm welcome to our young, fresh, and talented new trainees!🎉👏🏻
We hope you have great insight into ECHA's work for #SaferChemicals!
If you are interested in our #traineeshippositions, have a look at our career page 🔗https://fcld.ly/traineeshipt
The 🇪🇺 Commission is looking for feedback on their proposal for a basic regulation for ECHA. The initiative aims to strengthen our governance and make the financing of our bodies more sustainable.
Help shape our future - #EUHaveYourSay by 10 October.
Give your feedback on the use of health-based limit values used in a regulatory context to protect people and the environment from negative effects after exposure to different chemical substances or mixtures.
#EUHaveYourSay until 10 October 2022.
The European Commission is looking for feedback on a draft act that would introduce new hazard classes as part of its revision to the #EU_CLP Regulation. #EUHaveYourSay by 18 October 2022.
RT @EU_ECHA: The #QSARToolbox - a free software supporting chemical risk management - has a new extension, helping users to
👉🏼identify substances that may cause endocrine disruption
👉🏼estimate acute oral toxicity and other properties
Iceland has joined us! Altogether 28 EU and EEA countries are now accepting poison centre notifications through our submission portal. If your country is not accepting notifications yet, contact your national helpdesk. 👉https://fcld.ly/pcmssupportt
The #QSARToolbox - a free software supporting chemical risk management - has a new extension, helping users to
👉🏼identify substances that may cause endocrine disruption
👉🏼estimate acute oral toxicity and other properties
In our latest #SaferChemicalsPodcast, Chairs of our Committees for Risk Assessment and Socio-Economic Analysis, talk about #PAHs in clay targets, 2,4-DNT used e.g. in polyurethane foams & the need for EU-wide classification and labelling of borate salts.
🔗https://fcld.ly/committeepodt
Did you know that EU agencies' staff comes from all over Europe 🇪🇺? Together, we cover all EU languages - so we can be confident to say we speak yours! We also speak the language of #science, and most of our web content is available in 23 languages.
#EUHaveYourSay on our proposal to restrict the manufacture, use and placing on the market of substances, mixtures & articles containing medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs).
🔗 https://fcld.ly/mccpconsultationt
We welcome early comments by 21 October 2022.
The 🇪🇺 Commission is looking for feedback on their proposal for a basic regulation for ECHA. The initiative aims to strengthen our governance and make the financing of our bodies more sustainable.
#EUHaveYourSay by 10 October 2022.
@PiaClerte (1/2)We welcome the study by Meyer et al. on the impacts on birds from lead ammunition. This new study supports the justifications presented for an EU-wide restriction, while using a different methodology.
We are recruiting assistants with experience in finance and regulation.
If you are customer-oriented and have a pragmatic approach to work - you could be the one!
Read more about the job on our website and apply by 11 October 2022.
🔗https://fcld.ly/rfassistantst
RT @EU_ECHA: At least 270 tonnes of toxic #PAHs end up in our environment each year from clay targets for shooting. Our scientific committees support an EU-wide ban on these substances.
Read the highlights from their September meetings: 🔗https://echa.europa.eu/-/cancer-causing-pahs-in-clay-targets-need-an-eu-wide-ban?utm_campaign=RAC_SEAC_news&utm_source=Twitter.com&utm_medium=FaceLift.com
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