On October 9-13, 2023, the 19th meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC-19) of the Stockholm Convention was held at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy. At the meeting, the committee unanimously recommended the inclusion of two groups of chemicals, medium chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs) and \"long chain perfluorocarbonic acids (LC-PFCAs) and their salts and related substances\", in Annex A of the Convention for elimination, However, it is also proposed that these chemicals can still be used in specific circumstances, and the inclusion proposal, including special exemptions, will be considered at the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention in 2025.

On September 21st, 2023, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) of the United States issued the Final Rule (DFR)16 CFR 1263 for button and coin batteries and related products to protect children under 6 years old from battery intake, and the DFR will take effect on October 23rd, 2023.

On October 13, 2023, the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) released the toy safety standard ASTM F963-23. The expected mandatory adoption date will be April 2024.Currently, Federal Regulations 16 CFR 1250 still use ASTM F963-17 as a mandatory version.

On June 30th, 2023, BSI British National Standards Institute issued new versions of standards BS 1363-1:2023, BS 1363-2:2023, BS 1363-3:2023, BS 1363-4:2023 and BS 1363-5:2023. BS 1363 is a plug in Britain.

On August 3rd, 2023, DGFT (Director General of Foreign Trade) of India issued Notice No.23/2023, which imposed import restrictions on notebook computers, tablet computers, all-in-one personal computers, subminiature computers and servers with immediate effect.

Recently, according to the Notice of the General Administration of Market Supervision on Issuing the Description and Definition Table of Compulsory Product Certification Catalogue (No.36, 2023), the products of electric pressure rice cookers (pots) were adjusted from liquid heaters (0717) to electric rice cookers (0718).

Recently, CNCA official website issued two resolutions on the requirements of compulsory product certification for camping mobile power supply, the division of compulsory product certification units for lithium-ion batteries and measurement tolerance.

On August 11th, 2023, California Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Office (OEHHA) added anthracene, 2-bromopropane and dimethyl phosphite to California\'s list of 65 hazardous substances because of carcinogenicity.