South Korea Updates Hazard Evaluation Results for New Substances Registered under K-REACH

259 new substances registered under K-REACH were recently issued with corresponding hazard evaluation results. The hazard evaluation results of 20 new substances previously assessed were updated. Errors were corrected for two substances.

South Korea’s National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) issued NIER Announcement No. 2017-9 on 27 Jun 2017, making public the results of hazard evaluation of 259 new substances (given number as 2017-192~2017-450) newly registered under K-REACH. So far 1,689 new substances registered under K-REACH were issued with corresponding hazard evaluation results (given number as 2015-1∼2015-101, 2016-1∼2016-1138, 2017-1~2017-450).

In addition, the hazard properties and classification details of 20 new substances previously assessed were updated. Their given numbers are listed as below:

2015-13, 2015-14, 2015-25, 2016-119, 2016-121, 2016-180, 2016-206, 2016-222, 2016-226, 2016-310, 2016-320, 2016-427, 2016-438, 2016-462, 2016-488, 2016-499, 2016-550, 2016-622, 2016-700, 2017-35

Details of the updates are accessible here.

In addition, errors of two substances were corrected. The details are specified as below:

Given No.	Chemical Name and CAS No.	Updates
2016-120	Acetic acid, anhydride reaction products with 1,5,10-trimethyl-1,5,9-cyclododecatriene (144020-22-4)	EC50 (Fish) =0.63mg/L should be revised as “LC50 (Fish) =0.63mg/L”
2016-604	3,7,7-Trimethylbicyclo[4.1.0]hept-3-ene (13466- 78-9)	EC50 (Fish)=0.8mg/L should be revised as “EC50 (Daphnia magna) =0.8mg/L”

The previous updates for the lists of new substances registered under K-REACH associated with hazard evaluation results were reported by ChemLinked as below:

NIER Announcement No.2015-18 on 17 Dec 2015 (CL news)
NIER Announcement No.2016-5 on 25 Apr 2016 (CL news)
NIER Announcement No.2016-11 on 4 Aug 2016 (CL news)
NIER Announcement No.2016-18 on 30 Sep 2016 (CL news)
NIER Announcement No. 2017-5 on 3 Apr 2017 (CL news)