China Consults on 1st Batch of Priority Chemicals

On Oct 9^th 2017, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) issued an internal notice regarding a draft of the Catalogue of Priority Chemicals (1^st Batch) and sought opinions from various governmental branches and academic institutes, including the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS), the Ministry of Transport (MOT), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), Chinese Society of Toxicology, etc.