Australia - New Measure to Restrict the Use of DBDPE and Mercury etc Chemical Substances

​The Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water has issued "Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Instrument 2025" to add decabromodiphenylethane (DBDPE), mercury and its compounds to Schedule 6 of the "Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) Instrument 2022", formally prohibiting the production, import, export and use of the flame retardant decabromodiphenylethane (DBDPE) with environmental ris​ks and toxic heavy metal mercury and its compounds; It is necessary to focus on a total of 23 substances in the schedule to the regulations, and see the table below for new substances：

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