This project was implemented over the period from February 27, 2013 to December 31, 2013. The main objectives were to collect up-to-date international chemical substances and environmental hormones regulatory information, to implement a domestic use survey with respect to key substances, to propose suggestions for the revision of relevant laws and regulations, and to assist Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) in organizing of the inter-departmental responsibilities. The project achievement included: (1) collection and analysis of information regarding chemical controls in the European Union (EU), the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and China, as well as information regarding chemical controls among international conventions and the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM); examination of relevant chemical lists in Taiwan using current screening principles; assistance with administration of imposing the control on hexabromocyclododecane (which has become a focus of international attention) and with the proposals for revising of the Toxic Chemical Substances Control Act and its sub-statutes; (2) compilation of Chinese toxicological data abstracts of 20 toxic chemical substances (including pentachloronitrobenzene, etc.) and of toxicological data tables of 30 toxic chemical substances (including chromated copper arsenate, etc.), as well as completion of a domestic use survey with respect to 10 chemical substances (including benzo(a)pyrene, etc.) and submission of recommendations regarding the imposition of controls on these substances; (3) collection and analysis of information regarding controls on environmental hormones in the EU, the United States, Canada, Japan and China; assistance with the holding of an inter-departmental meeting on environmental hormones management plans and two public seminars of environmental hormones issues; as well as sampling of 45 commercially-available cleaning agents, paints, etc., which all complied with the regulations of the Toxic Chemical Substances Control Act; (4) maintenance and updating of Global Harmonized System (GHS) toxic chemical labeling guidelines, and importing of relevant domestic and overseas control information onto the dedicated information platform established as part of this project, as well as onto the environmental hormones management plan project platform, providing all interested parties better ways for understanding the management tendency of toxic chemical substances.

Toxic Chemical Substances;Environmental Hormone;Domestic Use Survey