Name: Mr. Shigeki TSUDA, Mr.Naoyuki YASUDA Division: Office of Chemical Safety, Pharmaceutical and Food Safety Bureau Organisation: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 1-2-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8916 Japan Telephone: 81 3 3595 2298 Fax: 81 3 3593 8913 E-mail: Tsuda-shigeki@mhlw.go.jp, yasuda-naoyuki@mhlw.go.jp
Name: Mr.Akira NITTA, Division: Chemicals Evaluation Office Organisation: Ministry of the Environment 1-2-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8975 Japan Telephone: 81 3 5521 8253 Fax: 81 3 3581 3370 E-mail: AKIRA_NITTA@env.go.jp
2-1-2 Industrial Safety and Health Law
Name: Mr. Yasuhiro Kishi Division: Chemical Substance Investigation Division, Labour Standards Bureau Organisation: Ministry of Health,Labour and Welfare 1-2-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8916 Japan Telephone: 81 3 3502 6756 Fax: 81 3 3502 1598 E-mail: Kishi-yasuhiroky@mhlw.go.jp Type of enquiry that can be handled: The test form which the information equilvalent to or more than that obtainable from the mutagenicity test or any one of the carcinogenicity tests shall be conducted for the toxicity investigation
2-2 Contact in chemical industry association
Name: Mr.Yoshihiro Ikeda Division: Chemical Safety Management Center Organisation: Japan Chemical Industry Association 3-2-4, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013 Japan Telephone: 81 3 3580 1381 Fax: 81 3 3580 1383 E-mail: Yikeda@jcia-net.or.jp
3-1 Legislation, its explanatory note and guidance for putting together a notification
3-1-1 Law Concerning the Examination and Regulation of Manufacture etc. of Chemical Substances
The Guidebook on the Law concerning the Examination and Regulation of Manufacture etc. of Chemical Substances
Purpose: to explain the law on each article basis referring to related Orders,etc. as well
Intended audience: Possible manufacturers and importers
Content: Explanation of each article of the law, (2)the Order and the Ministerial Order etc.; (3) Administrative provision about GLP and testing methods
Language(s): Japanese
Publication: Published by Daiichi-Houki Press Co.
Date of publication: 1990
Charge for the information: N.A.(Out of Print)
Contact for obtaining copy of information: Mr. Kanji IWATA Chemical Safety Office, Manufacturing Industries Bureau Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 1-3-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8901 Japan Telephone: 81 3 3501 0605 Fax: 81 3 3501 2084 E-mail: iwata-kanji@meti.go.jp
Name: The Guidebook on the Notification of New Chemicals under the Law concerning the Examination and Regulation of Manufacture etc. of Chemical Substances
Purpose: to answer the practical questions about the notification
Intended audience: Possible manufacturers and importers
Content: (1)Explanation of practical procedures required on Q&A basis. (2)Appendix(related legislature etc.); (3) Administrative provision about GLP and testing methods
Language(s): Japanese
Publication: Published by Japan Chemical Industry Daily Press Co.
Date of publication: 1999
Charge for the information: 5,000 yen
Contact for obtaining copy of information: Mr. Kanji IWATA/Chemical Safety Office, Manufacturing Industries Bureau Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 1-3-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8901 Japan Telephone: 81 3 3501 0605 Fax: 81 3 3501 2084 E-mail: iwata-kanji@meti.go.jp
3-1-2 Industrial Safety and Health Law
Name: The Guidebook on the Notification of New Chemicals under Industrial Safety and Health Law
Purpose: to explain the notification scheme under the law
Intended audience people who manufacture and import chemicals
Content: (1) Explanation of Industrial Safety and Health Law, the Enforcement Order and the Ministerial Order; (2) Notification scheme of new chemicals; (3) GLP; (4) Testing method
Language(s): Japanese
Publication: Published by Japan Industrial Safety and Health Association
Date of publication: 1997
Charge for the information: Not free
Contact for obtaining copy of information: Mr. Yasuhiro Kishi, Chemical Substance Investigation Division, Labour Standards Bureau Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 1-2-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8916 Japan Telephone: 81 3 3502 6756 Fax: 81 3 3502 1598 E-mail: kishi-yasuhiroky@mhlw.go.jp
3-2 Guidance for putting together a notification
3-2-1 Law Concerning the Examination and Regulation of Manufacture etc. of Chemical Substances
4.1 Inventory
4.1.1 Law Concerning the Examination and Regulation of Manufacture etc. of Chemical Substances
Name: List of existing chemical substances
Purpose: To announce chemical substances other than ones on the lists in 4.2 below, for which production or import notification is not required
Intended audience: Possible makers and importers
Content: Names of chemical substances and their reference numbers
Type of chemicals included: All types of compounds except naturally occurring ones, ones regulated under the other legislatures etc.
No. of chemicals included: About 20,000
Language(s): Japanese
Publication: Official gazette issued on December 24, 1973
Charge for the information: Free
Frequency of publication or update: N.A.
Last year of update: N.A.
Contact for obtaining copy of information Mr. Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Mr Kanji IWATA Chemical Management Policy Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 1-3-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8901 Japan Telephone: +81 3 3501 0080 Fax: +81 3 3580 6347 E-mail: yamaguchi-takashi@meti.go.jp (for Mr. Yamaguchi), iwata-kanji@meti.go.jp (for Mr.Iwata)
4.1.2 Industrial Safety and Health Law
Public announcement on the names of the new chemicals that are notified and assessed
Purpose: To open the names of the existing chemicals that are notified
Intended audience: Public
Type of chemicals included Notified and/or assessed new chemicals No. of chemicals included about 10,000 chemicals
Language(s): Japanese
Publication: In paper form
Charge for the information: Not free
Frequency of publication or update: regularly (ever 3 months, 4 times/year) Last year of update: 2001
Contact for obtaining copy of information: Mr. Yasuhiro Kishi, Chemical Substance Investigation Division, Labour Standards Bureau Ministry of Health,Labour and Welfare 1-2-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8916 Japan Telephone: 81 3 3502 6756 Fax: 81 3 3502 1598 E-mail: kishi-yasuhiroky@mhlw.go.jp
4.2 Government gazette notices
Law Concerning the Examination and Regulation of Manufacture etc. of Chemical Substances
Name: List of non-designated chemical substances, List of designated chemical substances
Purpose: To announce the regulatory status of evaluated new and existing chemical substances
Intended audience: Possible makers and importers
Content: Names and their reference numbers under the Law
Type of chemicals included Class 1 specified chemical substances, Class 2 specified chemical substances, designated chemical substances and non-designated new chemical substances No. of chemicals included 11, 23, 422 and about 4 thousands respectively
Language(s): Japanese
Publication: As part of official gazette issued on or in advance to the date of validity
Charge for the information: Free
Frequency of publication or update: Non-periodically
Last year of update: 2000
Contact for obtaining copy of information: Mr. Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Mr Kanji IWATA Chemical Management Policy Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Address: 1-3-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8901 Japan Telephone: +81 3 3501 0080 Fax: +81 3 3580 6347 E-mail: yamaguchi-takashi@meti.go.jp (for Mr. Yamaguchi), iwata-kanji@meti.go.jp (for Mr.Iwata)
