Australia Removes a Wrongly Listed Chemical from AIIC (Updated on June 30, 2022)

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On June 30, 2022, the Australian Government published the public consultation outcome of the evaluation statement of the chemical (CAS No. 1428963-39-6). The chemcial (CAS No. 1428963-39-6) will be removed from the AIIC on July 29, 2022, and Instead, the chemical with CAS No. 1431957-88-8 will be added to the AIIC on the same day.

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On April 8, 2022, the Australian Government issued a notice¹ to publicly solicit comments on removing a chemical (CAS No. 1428963-39-6) from the Australian Inventory of Industrial Chemicals (AIIC). The consultation will end on June 3, 2022.

According to the Draft Evaluation Statement - EVA00089², this chemical was wrongly listed on AIIC because of the misidentification of the chemical structure, of which the word “hydrolyzed” in the name is just a side reaction and should not be included in the polymer name. Instead, the chemical with CAS No. 1431957-88-8 is the one that should have been listed on AIIC.

Below are the details of the two chemicals to facilitate your understanding.

Table 1 - Chemical proposed to be removed from AIIC

Table 2 - Chemical proposed to be added to AIIC