New psychoactive substances can cause serious cross-border threats to health. In Europe, a three-step legal framework of early warning, risk assessment, and control measures allows the European Union to rapidly detect, assess, and respond to the public health and social threats caused by new psy...
This report presents advice and discussions about a fishing effort regime for demersal fisheries in the western Mediterranean Sea. It constitutes a complementary and updated approach to that presented in April 2018....
Ethylzingerone with INCI name ‘Hydroxyethoxyphenyl Butanone’ (HEPB) Cosmetics Europe No P98 - CAS No 569646-79-3 is a cosmetic ingredient not regulated under Cosmetic Regulation No 1223/2009 with the function as skin conditioning agent. In September 2015, the Commission' services received a doss...
This publication presents the data and findings of the risk assessment on furanylfentanyl (N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)piperidin-4-yl]furan-2-carboxamide), carried out by the extended Scientific Committee of the EMCDDA on 23 May 2017. The Risk Assessment Report, which was submitted to the Europ...
Climbazole, with the chemical name 1-(4-chlorophenoxy)-1-imidazol-1-yl-3,3-dimethyl-2- butanone, is currently regulated in the Cosmetics Directive as a preservative in Annex VI, entry 32, with a maximum authorized concentration of 0.5%. In opinion SCCP/1204/08, adopted on 21 February 2009, the S...