Kashinhou

As a chemical law called the law of Japan, the area of ​​law pertaining to the protection of human health from harmful chemicals and labor protection.

Japan was the world's first states with a law for the regulation of hazardous substances could only Before Japan Sweden demonstrate a chemical law. The Japanese kagaku busshitsu shinsa kiseihō (Japanese化学 物质 审查 规 制 法, Eng. Chemical Substances Control Law, CSCL) in 1973 were mainly various incidents with polychlorinated biphenyls in the late 1960s forward, as Yusho disease, but also with methylmercury mixtures, that accumulated in the food chain and led among other things to Minamata disease. The CSCL were asked a number of implementing and secondary legislation, and the inventory of Existing Chemical Substances Notified to the side over time.

Examples of different chemical inventories

• REACH - EU
• AICS - Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances
• DSL - Canadian Domestic Substances List
• NDSL - Canadian Non- Domestic Substances List
• KECL - Korean Existing Chemicals List
• ENCS ( MITI Inventory ) - Japanese Existing and New Chemical Substances
• PICCS - Philippine Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances
• TSCA - Toxic Substances Control Act 1976
• SWISS - List of Toxic Substances (until 2005)