The European Union (EU) signatory enforced EU instruction concerning the chemical substance with the doubt of carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, reproductive toxicity (CMR material) as a municipal law on December 25.
The enterprise cannot sell the consumers "Preparation" such as cosmetics, inks, and paints that are contained the CMR material.
Some cosmetics manufacturers in the United States began to move reacting on coming into effect of the EU instruction.
However, the movement of the enterprise in Japan is slow.
After seeing the response of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that supervises the cosmetics element standard, the enterprises that think about correspondence are the majority.
The reaction of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is also slow.
The problem that comes to the surface as a problem of the hazardous chemicals regulation is a limitation of "Negative list" that considers the industrial world too much.