On July 7, 2021, the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) announced that 8 chemical substances were included into the Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances (IECSC).

This is the fourth batch of existing substances that were added into the inventory after the IECSC supplementation window was reopened in June 2019  (CL news).  The other three batches were included into the IECSC last year and earlier this year, including:

• the first batch of 156 substances published on May 6, 2020;

• the second batch of 238 substances published on December 19, 2020;

• the third batch of 204 substances published on April 15, 2021.