Food Safety & Certification: Sri Lanka plans a certification programme to ensure fruits are sold free from harmful chemical residues, with officials mapping hygienic ripening facilities and promoting Good Agricultural Practices across farmers, traders and supermarkets. Agrochemicals & Adulteration Crackdown: India’s Gujarat seized 14,709 kg of adulterated cooking oil in Patan, allegedly mixing waste oil with soybean oil and relabeling for sale; in Udupi, raids seized 10,890 kg of chemically ripened bananas. Industrial Innovation: MIT spinout SiTration and BHP are trialling copper recovery from legacy mine water in Arizona, aiming for autonomous production and later commercial-scale cathodes without using chemicals. Materials & Regulation: Lanxess launched Disflamoll Advance plasticizing flame retardants with low triphenyl phosphate (TPP) to help plastics makers meet tightening rules and reduce antimony trioxide use. PFAS & Environmental Policy: A US appeals decision kept EPA’s CERCLA hazardous-substance designation for PFAS chemicals (PFOA/PFOS), keeping cleanup liability pressure on polluters. Public Health & Chemicals: A Nature Reviews Cardiology review says nicotine itself—whether smoked, vaped, or in pouches—still carries cardiovascular harm, even if combustion products are removed. Supply Chain & Manufacturing: UK CBI data shows export order books returning to “normal” levels for the first time in years, while chemical output remains a drag. Safety & Emergency Response: Delaware declared a state of emergency in Dover after a tornado caused widespread damage and power outages.