Japan - Chemical Substances Control Law
Japan - Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture (Chemical Substances Control Law)
Chemical Substances Control Law was introduced in 1973 as a preliminary evaluation of new chemical...
Chemical Substances Control Law was introduced in 1973 as a preliminary evaluation of new chemical substances to prevent environmental pollution caused by persistent chemical substances that risk impairing human health or interfering with the inhabitation and/or growth of flora and fauna. Pharos includes the substances on the following lists under CSCL:
- Class I Specified Chemical Substances: substances that are persistent, highly bioaccumulative and pose a risk of long-term toxicity to humans or predator animals at higher tropic level
- Class II Specified Chemical Substances: substances that may pose a risk of long-term toxicity to humans or to flora and fauna in the human living environment, and that have been, or in the near future are reasonably likely to be, found in considerable amounts over a substantially extensive area of the environment.
- Monitoring Chemical Substances: substances that are persistent and highly bioaccumulative and whose long-term toxicity to humans or predator animals at higher trophic level is unclear.
- Priority Assessment Chemical Substances: substances whose long-term toxicity to humans or to flora and fauna in the human living environment is unclear, that have been found, or are expected to be found, in considerable amounts over a substantially extensive area of the environment
- Canceled - Priority Assessment Chemical Substances: substances designated as priority assessment chemical substances, and canceled based on the results of risk assessment.
- Type II Monitoring Chemical Substances (before amendment in FY 2009): suspected to have long-term toxicity to humans
- Type III Monitoring Chemical Substances (before amendment in FY 2009): substances that may interfere with the survival and/or growth of flora and fauna