Agenda
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Registration and coffee
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Welcome and introduction
- Session 1: Asia
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Recent regulatory updates from China
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Rest of Asia
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South Korea
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Q&A
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Refreshment break
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Turkey
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India's chemical regulatory landscape: an overview
- existing chemical regulations and authorities;
- access to Indian market; and
- recent developments.
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Q&A
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Lunch break and networking
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Welcome back
- Session 2: The Americas
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U.S. chemical legislation comes of age
- an overview of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to manage the risk associated with important but historically problematic chemicals;
- discuss the seven years of missteps since the enactment of a recast Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) in 2016;
- how EPA’s regulatory approach is more stringent than that under REACH;
- the struggles EPA still have with developing mechanisms to allow more sustainable chemistries on the market; and
- the tensions created as increased regulatory controls are placed on older products with no clear path to substitution.
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Canada
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Q&A
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Refreshment break
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Latin America’s chemicals management regulations
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Q&A
- Close of conference
