Welcome to the National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme - NICNAS

The Australian Government regulator of industrial chemicals

Our mission is the integrated regulation of industrial chemicals for the protection of human health and the environment through scientific excellence and regulatory efficiency to deliver the safe and sustainable use of chemicals.

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Latest News

 

Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) - Decisions on Requests for Variations

Added 30 January 2012
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NICNAS Chemical Gazette - January 2012

Added 03 January 2012
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Amendments to the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations 1990

Amendments to the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations 1990 commenced 10 December 2011.
Added 03 January 2012

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NICNAS Matters Newsletter - December 2011

Added 12 December 2011
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Australia and Canada Cooperative Arrangement on Industrial Chemicals

NICNAS, Environment Canada, and Health Canada signed a new Cooperative Arrangement to enhance technical cooperation and share information both new and existing industrial chemicals. This Cooperative Agreement extends the Arrangement that was in place earlier to also include existing chemicals

Added 28 November 2011
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2010-11 National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme - NICNAS Annual Report

The Annual Report provides Members of Parliment, Senators and the public with a detailed description of the NICNAS activities during 2010-11

Added 28 October2011
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Proposal to add to the Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances certain cosmetic ingredients that were in products previously regulated by the Therapeutic Goods Administration

Added 07 November 2011
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Change in annual reporting arrangements for certain cosmetic ingredients proposed for adding to the AICS that were in products previously regulated by the Therapeutic Goods Administration

Added 07 November 2011
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A Proposal to Improve Access to Information on Assessed Chemicals to Better Inform Secondary Notification Obligations

Added 01 November 2011
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NICNAS Act Amendments become law

The Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Amendment (Inventory) Bill 2011 commenced on 27 September 2011, and the amended Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989 became available on ComLaw on 28 September 2011.

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Review of 2007-09 literature on toxcological and health-effects relating to six Nanomaterials

NICNAS commissioned this technical consultancy to review and analyse available literature from 2007-2009 on six industrial nanomaterials, chosen as they were considered to already be in, or close to, commercial use in Australia. The aim of this review was to identify any available scientific evidence of important toxicological/health effects that had not been covered by the scope of previous reviews and therefore supplement currently available scientific information on these substances.
Added 28 September 2011

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Cosmetic Regulatory Gap Closed

The Hon Catherine King MP, has welcomed new laws to regulate ingredients in cosmetics which passed in the Senate on 15 September 2011.
Added 16 September 2011

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Better Regulation of Industrial Chemicals

A Better Regulation Ministerial Partnership between the Minister for Finance and Deregulation and the Minister for Health and Ageing has been established to evaluate and make recommendations on the regulatory settings for the notification, assessment and regulation of industrial chemicals.

Added 12 September 2011
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