The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has announced the third expansion of its new chemicals database, ECHA CHEM, now featuring comprehensive overviews of regulatory activities carried out by authorities and their outcomes. Read More...
The EU Parliament has voted to adopt new anti-greenwashing laws with 593 votes in favour, 21 against and 14 abstentions. Read More...
Footwear manufacturer Caleres has announced the One Planet Standard designation for products that meet or exceed 51% on its Sustainable Footwear Index. Read More...
The Leather and Hide Council of America (LHCA) has joined 129 other organisations in a letter urging regulators to update rules around digital labelling requirements. Read More...
Mike Redwood examines the trouble arising from products mislabelling themselves as vegan and the parallels we can see in the materials industry. Read More...
A subgroup of the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) Enforcement Forum, focusing on the Biocidal Products Regulation (BPRS), has launched a project around biocidal products labelling. Read More...
Textile Exchange has announced the adoption of an official definition for “leather” as a material created from the hide or skin of an animal.
Read More...This month’s hot topic: Following the recent introduction of new legislation protecting the labelling of genuine leather in Italy, is the global leather industry doing enough to achieve legislation of the term ‘leather’ from mislabelling and other competing materials trading off the back of its reputation?
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Portugal’s Tanning Industry Association (APIC) has addressed a letter to the Portuguese government requesting the establishment of a framework for the use of the term ‘leather’, both at national and European levels.
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Three new topics around vegan material labelling, the value of re-use and recycling of materials and how the leather industry marketplace may look post-Covid-19 are covered in the latest ILM podcast, which is now free-to-download and listen to.
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