PFAS and Beyond: Navigating Chemical Group Regulations Across the Supply Chain

Purpose

Help product stewardship, regulatory, environmental health and safety (EHS) and supply shain teams navigate the growing complexity of global chemical group regulations. This session highlights how UL Solutions integrated regulatory content, supply chain monitoring tools and expert advisory services work together to support end-to-end compliance and reduce the risk of noncompliance.

This session is for teams that want to:

• Prepare for global regulatory changes affecting PFAS and other high-priority chemical groups
• Reduce non compliance risk across complex or opaque supply chains
• Understand how group-based regulatory approaches affect product formulations, reporting and market access
• Partner with experts who combine data, software, and advisory alignment to build forward-looking compliance strategies

Who Should Attend

• Product stewards and compliance managers
• Regulatory affairs specialists
• Supply chain and procurement leaders
• EHS and chemical safety managers
• Companies manufacturing, importing or distributing products containing regulated chemicals
• Organizations working to standardize or globalize their compliance and reporting processes

Agenda

Welcome

This webinar supports companies working to stay ahead of accelerating chemical group regulations and avoid compliance gaps as PFAS, bisphenols, phthalates and other substance classes face intensified global scrutiny.

Regulatory landscape and timelines

Many organizations lack the visibility needed to assess chemical group risks. Supplier blind spots, fragmented internal data and incomplete disclosures significantly increase the likelihood of noncompliance. UL Solutions provides a clearer, more reliable path to regulatory confidence.

The rising wave of group-based regulations

• Update on the most recent PFAS regulation developments
• How agencies such as the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) are shifting from single-substance regulations to group-based approaches such as the Assessment of Regulatory Needs process, Harmonised classification process)

UL Solutions differentiation

With 130 years of trust and safety expertise, ULTRUS™ helps manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors simplify compliance, gain supply chain visibility, and access accurate data for smarter decisions.

Recognized and trusted by regulators, auditors and compliance authorities worldwide

Technology

• Enterprise-grade chemical data management via WERCS Studio

• Powered by the ChemADVISOR® regulatory database:

  • 8,000+ global regulatory lists
  • 600,000+ substances
  • Multilingual phrase library

  
  Purpose-built to support complex group-based regulations, including PFAS

• Illuminator® Regulation Monitoring 
  Gain instant self-service access to high-quality chemical regulatory data monitoring.
• Navigator® Regulation Insights
  Understand key chemical regulations and compliance information affecting your products

Expertise

• Global regulatory specialists who:
  • Interpret ECHA’s grouping logic and maintain substance families
  • Validate group membership across chemical structures
  • Support supplier data collection and gap remediation
  • Advise on REACH, CLP, SDS and emerging group-level requirements

Customer scenario: how leading companies get ahead

A practical example showing how organizations use UL Solutions to identify chemical group membership, automate monitoring, validate supplier data and reduce compliance risk across global markets.

Call to action

Instead of reacting to PFAS, regulations, or relying on incomplete supplier data, leading companies partner with UL Solutions to gain clarity, automate regulatory tracking, and eliminate hidden compliance gaps.

Q&A

Live discussion of your specific challenges and how UL Solutions can support your compliance strategy.

Speakers

Martina Schnieder, Regulatory Affairs Manager