Japan Chemical Industry Association

The International Council of Chemical Associations—made up of the American Chemistry Council, the European Chemical Industry Council, and the Japan Chemical Industry Association—is the global coordinator of the Long-Range Research Initiative (LRI), a research program that funds research in the effects of chemicals on human health and the environment (LRI 2001). 

Mr. Masatoshi Ogura, Executive Director, Japan Chemical Industry Association, Japan... 

The accident at Saitama influenced the people involved profoundly,and it become a journalistic topic within newspapers and other media. The Japan Chemical Industry Association formed the "Workshop for Unstable Substances" and issued the brochure "For the prevention of unpredictable explosion and fire caused by chemical substances" in September of the year as an immediate measure. The association, after repeating its additional studies, issued the brochure "Guidelines for the prevention of disasters from unstable substances" in September, 1982, in which suggestion were offered regarding the kinds of provisional tests that should be made before a new chemical substance is... 

The Japan Society of Industrial Machinery Manufacturers The Japan Chemical Industry Association Engineering Advancement Association of Japan The Cement Association of Japan... 

Source Japan Chemical Industry Association Notes 1985 Indices - 100. Exchange Rate Yenl30/S... 

Many resources were used to compile the information in this book. The hazardous chemicals listed here are taken from Sittig, 4th Edition. For a few chemicals in Sittig, their makers are not listed, perhaps because they are made in such limited quantities that they are sold through specialty middlemen and catalog houses. The primary resources for preparing the list of manufacturers in this book were (1) the Web sites of the companies, (2) membership in special sections of United States chemical societies, the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) and societies in India, Japan, Asia, Italy and elsewhere, and (3) sites in which companies register themselves as producers of particular products, such as the Thomas Directories in the U.S. and Europe, the American Chemical Society ChemCyclopedia, and the British Chemical Industries Association Chemextra. Direct access to these sites are quickly available to any Internet user. They are listed in Section VII - Hotlines, Databases and Useful Web Sites. 

Japan Cosmetic Industry Association, Hatsumei Kaikan 4F, 2-9-14 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001, Japan LALIQUE SA 11, rue Royale 75008 Paris, France Monell Chemical Senses Center, 3500 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3308, USA... 

A fall in consumption of heat stabilisers in Japan has been caused both by a switch from lead and by a decline in PVC sales. In 1999 heat stabiliser shipments were 70,000 t/y, but they fell to 53,466 tonnes in 2002 and 51,700 tonnes in 2003, according to the Japan Inorganic Chemical Industry Association. Lead accounted for only half the Japanese heat stabiliser usage by 2002 and its market share continues to fall, while demand for calcium-zinc types is growing. A breakdown of shipments by type is given in Table 6.9. (The total for 2002 is very slightly different from the one just cited.)... 

The perception that the industry has not been working hard to improve, is not borne out by the facts. An initiative named Responsible Care which is the chemical industry s commitment to continuous improvement in all aspects of health, safety and environmental protection was launched in Canada in 1984. It was adopted by the USA in 1988 and has been spreading around the world since then. Apart from North America and Europe which are discussed below, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, India, Zimbabwe and other countries have adopted it [5]. The European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) has drawn up guidelines which are given in Figure 1.1 [5]. In the UK, where the Chemical Industries Association (CIA) makes participation in the Responsible Care initiative a condition of membership, discharges of red list substances (compounds of mercury and cadmium, DDT, malathion, triphenyl and tributyl tin, etc.) fell by 40% between 1990 and 1992 whilst special wastes (compounds of arsenic, antimony, barium, mercury, nickel, vanadium, etc.) disposed of off site fell by 9% [6]. The Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) in the USA also makes participation a condition of membership and one of its Pollution Prevention Code requirements is very relevant to this book ... 

Yamasaki Y. Overview of Recycling Technology in Textile Industry in Japan and the World. Japan Japan Chemical Fibers Association 2004. 

JEMCAA (Japan Environmental Measurement Chemical Analysis Association), 1997. Analysis Manual of Industrial Waste (in Japan). 

The safety-toxicological testing of a new excipient for Europe or the United States is as extensive as that for an NCE and can take four to five years to complete. There are differences in the safety evaluation requirements for different types of formulations oral, parenteral and topical/transdermal. The International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC Europe and IPEC-Americas) have been working on a protocol for the rational safety testing of excipients to aid the introduction of new chemical excipients (see Table 5.4). IPEC is a federation of three independent regional industry associations based in Europe, the United States and Japan who are focused on the applicable law, regulations and business practices of each region with respect to pharmaceutical excipients. 

In 1998, the Are safety of television sets and computer monitors manufactured in various countries was studied by a group of flame retardant experts associated with the European Chemical Industry Council. Various ignition sources were utilized, from simulation of a household candle to a trash basket full of paper. The results showed that TV sets purchased in Germany and the Nordic countries ignited easily, even with the smallest ignition source. Normally, these sets did not contain any flame retardant, in order to pass green labeling, or contained minimal amounts of flame retardant, to meet the European lEC 60065 test. In contrast, TV sets purchased in the United States or Japan, which were... 

Australian Ceramic Society, Dutch Ceramic Society, Gypsum Board Association-Japan, Groupe Fran9ais de la Ceramique, Japanese Association of Inorganic Phosphorus Chemistry, Japan Cement Association, Japan Lime Association, Japan Plaster of Paris Industrial Association, Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy, National Institute for Materials Science, Slovak Silicate Society, The Ceramic Society of Japan, The Chemical Society of Japan, The Technical Association of Refractories-Japan, The JSPS 124th Committee on Advanced Ceramics... 

Hiroshi Fukumura received his M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees from Tohoku University, Japan. He studied biocompatibility of polymers in the Government Industrial Research Institute of Osaka from 1983 to 1988. He became an assistant professor at Kyoto Institute of Technology in 1988, and then moved to the Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University in 1991, where he worked on the mechanism of laser ablation and laser molecular implantation. Since 1998, he is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Tohoku University. He received the Award of the Japanese Photochemistry Association in 2000, and the Award for Creative Work from The Chemical Society Japan in 2005. His main research interest is the physical chemistry of organic molecules including polymeric materials studied with various kinds of time-resolved techniques and scanning probe microscopes. 

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