The acronym REACH stands for: • Registration • Evaluation • Authorization • Chemicals While the acronym CLP stands for: • Classification • Labeling • Packaging The REACH regulation stems from the famous White Paper issued in 2001 concerning the future of chemicals’ policy by the EU; since the time of the White Paper until the entry into the regulation there has been...read

The strategic objectives of the regulation aim to increase awareness of the risks of using chemicals (particularly hazardous ones), to ensure a high level of protection of health and environment, to promote the free movement of chemical substances as such, or in preparations and articles, to promote competitiveness and innovation, and, finally, to encourage the substitution of dangerous...read

2010 is a key year for the registration and declaration of chemicals for both, the Regulation 1907/2006 (REACH), and the Regulation 1278/2008 (CLP). Companies that must register by November 30, 2010, should begin the process as soon as possible; first of all should contact the SIEF for sharing data on substances. The SIEF is a forum for exchanging information on substances; its main objective...read

Nutrition of surgical patients is one of the key points, if not the most important, in the evolution of their clinical picture. Nutritional disorders, in fact, can further increase the risk linked to the underlying disease and to the surgery. The malnourished patient can be defined as "critically ill". The body response to the additional insult of the surgery involves quantitative and...read

The human papillomavirus vaccine (Gardasil) has been available in Italy for two years, and is finding increasing use in adolescents given the high risk of contracting HPV 16,18,6 and 11: four very dangerous histotypes, the first two associated with cervical cancer, and the others implicated in the development of genital warts. The vaccine produces neutralizing antibodies that inhibit the...read