Life sciences
Foresight tracks the chemical rules that reach your reagents, test kits and lab consumables, and runs the projects that follow.
ProjectsRegulatory horizon scanning
- Imogen Hart
- Anjali Rao
- James Whitfield
| Alert | Where | Relevance |
|---|---|---|
| Covers the polymer microbeads in your test kits |  EU | Priority |
| Reaches your PTFE filters and possibly your kits | EU | Priority |
| Applies to the reagents you sell as substances | EU | Relevant |
| Used in your borate buffer reagents |  GB | Relevant |
| Covers the solvent in your US quality labs |  US | Relevant |
Microplastics instructions for IVDs
Relevance: PriorityInstructions required from 17 October
- Applies
- From 17 October 2026
- Duty
- Instructions for use and disposal
- Reports
- Yearly reports to ECHA from 2027
Universal PFAS restriction
Relevance: PrioritySEAC unsure IVD testing is exempt
- Stage
- SEAC final opinion, 17 to 19 November
- IVDs
- Unclear if research exemption covers IVD testing
- Equipment
- Fluoropolymer lab equipment also unclear
New CLP hazard classes
Relevance: RelevantExisting substances due 1 November 2026
- Substances
- Existing substances by 1 November 2026
- Mixtures
- Existing mixtures by 1 May 2028
- Classes
- Endocrine disruption, PBT, vPvB, PMT, vPvM
Sodium borates listed as SVHCs
Relevance: RelevantSodium borates now SVHCs in GB
- Added
- 15 June 2026, UK REACH Candidate List
- Covers
- Sodium salts of boric acid
- Mixtures
- Data sheet on request from 0.1%
Methylene chloride rule vacated
Relevance: RelevantCourt vacates rule before lab deadlines
- Stage
- Vacated by appeals court, 15 September 2026
- Effective
- Since 2 October 2026
- Labs
- EPA’s lab dates no longer apply
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Rules reach every step, from suppliers to testing labs
One rule at each step of a typical life sciences organisation, and what it means for you.
Suppliers
Since May 2026, the EU has classed bisacrylamide you buy as a mutagen, so gel reagents from 0.1% need warnings.
Your sites
Since January 2021, using Triton X-100 to make reagents has needed an EU REACH authorisation.
Your products
After 6 June 2031, EU REACH limits siloxanes D4, D5 and D6 in diagnostic reagents, five years after most products.
Your markets
Research reagent mixtures you sell in the US need labels and safety data sheets updated for OSHA by November 2027.
Testing labs
Since July 2024, labs using your formalin fixatives must keep formaldehyde within the EU limit of 0.3 ppm.
Projects for life sciences
Each is scoped to your products, labs and markets, and Foresight checks every result against its source.
Keep watch
All 3 projectsUnderstand your exposure
All 7 projectsMeet an obligation
All 9 projectsKeep documents current
All 4 projectsDescribe the work. Foresight runs it and checks it.
Every project runs the same way, whatever the regulation. Here Foresight answers a customer’s substance questionnaire from your own records, and asks your suppliers for the rest.
Illustration of one project. The request reads: Answer this customer’s substance questionnaire from our records, and ask suppliers for what’s missing. Foresight reads the customer’s 86 questions and replies: I’ll answer what I can from your formulations, ask suppliers for the rest, and check each answer against its source. It plans the work: Read the questionnaire, Match each question to your records, Ask suppliers for the rest, Draft each answer with its source. Your records answer 79 of 86 questions. Foresight asks 3 suppliers for the other 7. Foresight checks each answer against its source, such as a supplier’s declaration that no PFAS are intentionally added. The answers go into the customer’s own file, each with its source, ready for Priya Nair, Product Stewardship Manager, to send back. Foresight goes on monitoring the rules behind each answer.
Say what you need in plain words, and share what you already have.
Foresight sets the scope, plans the work and drafts each deliverable with the sources it rests on.
Foresight checks each answer against its source.
The work comes back ready to use, and Foresight keeps it current as the rules change.
Your data, kept secure
Your data is kept in your organisation’s own workspace, separate from every other customer’s. It is encrypted in transit and at rest, including nightly backups, and is not shared with model providers for training. Foresight runs regular penetration tests.
How Foresight protects your data
What life science teams ask
Does Foresight cover device approval?
No. Foresight covers the chemical rules on your reagents, test kits and lab consumables, such as REACH authorisations and restrictions, CLP classifications and PFAS rules.
Does Foresight cover the chemicals in our labs?
Yes. Foresight watches exposure limits for formaldehyde and other lab chemicals, and OSHA’s rules for labels and safety data sheets. An exposure limit review checks the limits for methylene chloride, formaldehyde and the other chemicals in your labs, site by site.
Can Foresight answer customers’ questions on SVHCs and PFAS?
Yes. Foresight drafts answers on SVHCs, PFAS and microplastics in your products from your own records, and checks each one against its source. A PFAS portfolio review finds which of your filter membranes, tubing and kit parts count as PFAS under each definition where you sell.
What do you need from us?
A description of the work and the products it covers. Useful inputs include your kit components, reagent formulations, safety data sheets, the labs and sites you run and the markets you sell into. You also set how the work is judged, such as your own scoring scale.
Tell us the work you need done
Foresight talks through your kits, reagents and markets with you. You’ll see the scope and the price before the project starts.
