On Sept. 27, 2022, China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment released a draft 2022 List of Key Controlling New Pollutants to seek public comments, which will be accepted through Oct. 28, 2022.
The New Pollutant Control Action Plan, announced by the State Council in May 2022, states that a list of key controlling new pollutants will be released by the end of 2022 and keep being updated after that. It also says that bans, restrictions, discharge restrictions and other environmental risk control measures against these new pollutants are dynamically introduced.
The latest draft list is based on the above action plan and specifies 14 types of key controlled new pollutants along with control measures for each of them, including bans and restrictions on production, processing, use, import or export as well as discharge reduction.
Draft 2022 List of Key Controlling New Pollutants
The draft list contains the following 14 items. Only part of their control measures are shown here. You can see the complete full details via the link at the end of this article.
No. | Name(s) of new pollutant(s) | CAS Registry Number(s) | Main measures to control environmental risks (part of the measures shown here) |
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1 | Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid and its salts, and perfluorooctanesulfonyl fluoride (PFOS group) | Examples: 1763-23-1 307-35-7 2795-39-3 29457-72-5 29081-56-9 70225-14-8 56773-42-3 251099-16-8 |
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2 | Perfluorooctanoic acid and its salts and related compounds (PFOA group) | ― |
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3 | Decabromodiphenyl ether | 1163-19-5 |
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4 | Short-chain chlorinated paraffins | Examples: 85535-84-8 68920-70-7 71011-12-6 85536-22-7 85681-73-8 108171-26-2 |
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5 | Hexachlorobutadiene | 87-68-3 |
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6 | Pentachlorophenol and its salts and esters | 87-86-5 131-52-2 27735-64-4 3772-94-9 1825-21-4 |
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7 | Dicofol | 115-32-2 10606-46-9 |
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8 | Perfluorohexanesulphonic acid and its salts and related compounds (PFHxS group) | ― |
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9 | Dechlorane plus (both cis and trans isomers) | 13560-89-9 135821-03-3 135821-74-8 |
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10 | Dichloromethane | 75-09-2 |
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11 | Chloroform | 67-66-3 |
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12 | Nonylphenols | 25154-52-3 84852-15-3 |
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13 | Antibiotics | ― |
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14 | Phased-out group (hexabromocyclododecane, chlordane, mirex, hexachlorobenzene, DDT, α-hexachlorocyclohexane, β-hexachlorocyclohexane, lindane, endosulfan as a raw material and its isomers, and polychlorinated biphenyls) | ― |
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The complete draft list (in Chinese) is available at
https://www.mee.gov.cn/xxgk2018/xxgk/xxgk06/202209/t20220927_995054.html