Chemical Law (Japan)
As chemicals legislation in the referred laws of Japan the right area that the protection of human health from harmful chemicals and the Occupational Safety serves.
Japan was one of the first countries in the world to have a law regulating hazardous substances: Before Japan, only Sweden had a chemicals law. The Japanese kagaku busshitsu shinsa kiseihō ( Japanese 化学 物質 審査 規 制 法 , English Chemical Substances Control Law , CSCL) from 1973 were mainly preceded by various incidents with polychlorinated biphenyls at the end of the 1960s, such as Yushō disease , but also with methylmercury - Mixtures that accumulated in the food chain and led to Minamata disease , among other things . In the course of time, the CSCL has been accompanied by numerous implementing and subsidiary laws as well as the inventory of Existing Notified Chemical Substances .
Examples of different chemical inventories
- REACH - EU
- AICS - Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances
- DSL - Canadian Domestic Substances List
- NDSL - Canadian Non-Domestic Substances List
- KECL - Korean Existing Chemicals List
- ENCS (MITI inventory) - Japanese Existing and New Chemical Substances
- PICCS - Philippine Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances
- TSCA - Toxic Substances Control Act (since 1976)
- IECSC - Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances Produced or Imported in China
- NECI - National Existing Chemical Inventory in Taiwan
- NZIoC - New Zealand Inventory of Chemicals
- Poison List - Swiss Poison Lists 1-3 (until 2005)
literature
- Andrea Kuhn: REACH - the new European regulatory system for chemicals . Lexxion Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86965-131-6 , Chapter I B. II. - Chemicals regulation in Japan (Berliner Stoffrechtliche Schriften Vol. 9).
- Rüdiger Lummert: Japan's chemical law in international comparison . In: Journal for Environmental Policy & Environmental Law (ZfU) . Lexxion Verlag, 1982, p. 171-197 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Chemical Substance Control Law. METI , archived from the original on March 16, 2013 ; accessed on September 28, 2011 (English).
- ↑ Andrea Kuhn: REACH - the new European regulatory system for chemicals . Lexxion Verlag, Berlin 2010, Chapter I B. II. - Chemical regulation in Japan.
