AOSDAC 2015
Final Circular September 15th, 2015

It is our pleasure to cordially invite you to “The 10th Asia

The 10 th Asia Oceania Soap and Detergent
Oceania Soap and Detergent Association Conference(AOSDAC 2015)” to be held in the center of Tokyo on 16th
Association Conference
October, 2015.

October 16 th , 2015
Tokyo, JapanAOSDAC is a conference of industry associations

engaged in production and sale of soap and detergent inAsia and Oceania. AOSDAC shall serve to promote

information sharing and exchange among the associations,contributing to consumerʼs prosperity and development of“Sustainable Growth in Asia and Oceania”
the industry through improvement in the cleanliness andsanitation for both consumers and the environment in theIt is our pleasure to cordially invite you to “The 10th Asia

region. Participants shall have periodic information

Oceania Soap and Detergent Association Conference

exchange including but not limited to the latest(AOSDAC 2015)” to be held in the center of Tokyo on

technological trends in soap and detergent, regulatory

October 16th, 2015.

systems for commercializing soap and detergent

AOSDAC is a conference of industry associations

products in Asia and Oceania market countries of area.

engaged in production and sale of soap and detergent in

JSDA is pleased to host the 10th anniversary AOSDAC.

Asia and Oceania. AOSDAC shall serve to promote

We look forward to seeing you in Tokyo.

information sharing and exchange among the associations,contributing to consumerʼs prosperity and development ofBest regards,

sanitation for both consumers and the environment in theChair of the AOSDAC 2015

Hitomi Takeshita

the industry through improvement in the cleanliness andregion. Participants shall have periodic informationexchange including but not limited to the latest

Keynote Speech

Organizations

technological trends in soap and detergent, regulatory

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Michitaka Sawada

President of JSDA, Japan Soap and Detergent Association“Supporting Social Innovation”

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andSpecialtyProducts(ACCORD,Australasia)AOSDAC.

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Invited Speech・Indian Home and Personal Care Industry Association (IHPCIA)
・Indonesian Soap and Detergent Association (ISDA)

Ernie Rosenberg President and CEO of ACI, the American

・Malaysia Soap and Detergent Association (MSDA)

Cleaning Institute・Philippine Soap and Detergent Association (PSDA)“Global Chemical Management Developments Aﬀecting
Cleaning Products”

・Taiwan Soap and Detergent Association (TSDA)

・Thai Soap and Detergents Manufacturers Association (TSDMA)

Susanne Zänker Director General of A.I.S.E., the International
Association for Soaps, Detergents and Maintenance Products

・Japan Soap and Detergent Association (JSDA)“An overview of the current key activities of A.I.S.E. ‒ Product
Safety & Innovations; Sustainability & Consumer Engagement”

Invited organizations・The International Association for Soaps, Detergents

Bronwyn Capanna Executive Director of ACCORD Australasia“APEC Chemical Dialogue ‒ Opportunities for the soap anddetergents industry”

and Maintenance Products (A.I.S.E.)

・American Cleaning Institute (ACI)・Canadian Consumer Specialty Products Association (CCSPA)

Lei Zhang CCIA, China Cleaning Industry Association“Status and trends of Chinese detergent supervision andregulation”

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8:00 ‒ 9:00 Registration

9:00 ‒ 9:10 Opening

9:10 ‒ 9:30 Congratulatory address
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

9:30 ‒ 12:30 Industry overview〈AOSDAC members〉
AOSDAC member will talk about industry
situations of each country.

DescriptionFee

Conference only

JPY 12,000Incl. reception

JPY 20,000

Registration
1) Download an application form from the website below

12:30 ‒ 14:00 Lunch Break

http://jsda.org/e/

14:00 ‒ 14:30 Keynote speech: Supporting Social Innovation〈Michitaka Sawada, President of JSDA, Japan Soapand Detergent Association〉

2) After ﬁlling out the form, e-mail it to

14:30 ‒ 15:00 Invited speech
Global Chemical Management Developments
Aﬀecting Cleaning Products〈 Ernie Rosenberg , ACI〉

Payment

aosdac2015@jsda.org

Payment can be made at the reception desk on the day

15:00 ‒ 15:30 Invited speech
An overview of the current key activities of A.I.S.E.
‒ Product Safety & Innovations; Sustainability &Consumer Engagement〈Susanne Zänker, A.I.S.E.〉

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15:30 ‒ 16:00 Break
16:00 ‒ 16:20 Invited speech
APEC Chemical Dialogue ‒ Opportunities for thesoap and detergents industry〈Bronwyn Capanna,ACCORD〉

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16:20 ‒ 16:40 Invited speech
Status and trends of Chinese detergent
supervision and regulation 〈Lei Zhang, CCIA〉

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Tokyo, JapanAOSDAC 2015

Invited Speech

Keynote SpeechMichitaka Sawada

Ernie Rosenberg
President of JSDA

President and CEO of ACISupporting Social Innovation

Global Chemical Management Developments
Aﬀecting Cleaning Products

Industrial associations have two important roles. One isto earn and strengthen the trust among the public as aAround the world, chemical management programs

reliable and fair mediator between governments andand policies are aﬀecting cleaning product formulation

Innovations. Social Innovation will become a key driver inopportunities for regulatory harmonization, some also

companies in the industry. Second is to accelerate Socialand marketing. Although these developments provide

realizing a society in which the people and the planet canhave the potential to restrict formulation, inhibit

live in harmony and sustainably. Through some examples

innovation and increase time to market. The presentation

experienced at JSDA, we will look at the increasing role inwill provide a brief overview of international, regional andwhich AOSDAC has to play in accelerating Social

national programs, policies and regulations aﬀecting thisInnovation.

industry. These include United Nations, Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and theAsia-Paciﬁc Economic Cooperation (APEC) Chemicals

Proﬁle:Michitaka Sawada was appointed as 28th President of JSDA inMay 2015.
He was appointed as President and Chief Executive Oﬃcer ofKao Corporation in June 2012.
Sawadaʼs initial career at Kao Corporation includes more than
thirty years in research and development, spanning both
fundamental research and product development research. In 2006,
Mr. Sawada became an Executive Oﬃcer of Kao Corporation andassumed broader responsibility across the entire R&D Division. Hewas the ﬁrst to lead the Human Health Care R&D Center following its
establishment in 2007 and quickly progressed to appointment tothe Board of Directors in 2008.
Sawada joined Kao Corporation in 1981 after earning a Masterof Engineering specialized in applied chemistry from OsakaUniversity.
Sawada was born in1955 in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

http://jsda.org/e/Dialogue. The presentation will also address regulationsin other countries that are aﬀecting products beyond theborders of the areas to which they oﬃcially apply.

Nongovernmental consumer and environmental groups
and retailers continue to apply pressure for more

restrictions. Cleaning product associations around theworld, including JSDA and ACI, have joined in a network toaddress some of these developments.

Proﬁle:Ernie Rosenberg joined the American Cleaning Institute® *(thenknown as the Soap and Detergent Association) in November 1999 as
its President and became its CEO in 2003. The American Cleaning
Institute is the premier association representing the value chain ofthe U.S. cleaning products industry. ACI focuses its eﬀorts onsustainability, outreach and chemicals management.

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Invited Speech

Invited Speech

Susanne Zänker

Bronwyn Capanna

Director General of A.I.S.E.

Executive Director of ACCORD Australasia

An overview of the current key activities of A.I.S.E.
‒ Product Safety & Innovations ;Sustainability & Consumer Engagement

APEC Chemical Dialogue-Opportunities for the soap and detergents industryThe Asia Paciﬁc Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a signiﬁcantregional economic forum whose 21 member economies together
comprise 54 percent of global GDP.
ACCORD Australasia has been an active participant in the APEC
Chemical Dialogue (APEC CD) since 2007, when Australia lasted
hosted APEC, as an industry co-partner within the Australian oﬃcialdelegation. Since that time, the APEC CD has played key role inpromoting trade liberalisation across the chemicals productindustry within APECʼ s member economies.
For the soap and detergents industry, whose voice needs to beheard as a signiﬁcant segment of the global chemicals industry, theAPEC CD is a useful forum for pursuing strategic goals forstrengthening the industry. Recent APEC CD projects have included
promotion and capacity building for Best Practices for Chemicals
Regulation, promotion of the chemical industryʼ s innovative
solutions status, and better product stewardship and sustainability.
There is opportunity for further soap and detergent industry
engagement in the APEC CD, which this presentation will focus on.

As the expert voice of the Cleaning and Maintenance

Products Industry in Europe, A.I.S.E. is very active in many

diﬀerent ﬁelds, both through voluntary industry initiatives
in the commitment to sustainability and the engagementin technical and regulatory developments.

In the area of sustainability, focus will be on the Charterfor Sustainable Cleaning and the evolving political agendain Europe.

In the area of product safety and innovation, a central

theme for companies is the classiﬁcation and labelling thatentered into force on 1st June 2015. Through DetNet,

developed by A.I.S.E., help is provided to companies in theclassiﬁcation of their substances.

Proﬁle:Susanne Zänker holds the position of Director General of A.I.S.E.,
the International Association for Soaps, Detergents andMaintenance Products since August 2005. The A.I.S.E. Secretariat,
which she heads, is located in Brussels.
Zänker graduated as a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine at theUniversity of Liège, Belgium in 1989. From 1989 to 1990 she worked
on an European Commission project on rabies eradication.
In 1990 she joined Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GmbH inGermany as Product Manager for vaccines. In April 1993, she worked
for the European Federation for Animal Health FEDESA, (known nowas IFAH-Europe), where she held the posts of Technical andInternational Aﬀairs Director in 2000, and Managing Director in
October 2004.

http://jsda.org/e/AOSDAC 2015-4-Proﬁle:Bronwyn Capanna has led ACCORD since 2000.
She has many yearsʼ experience in pharmacy practice and has
held senior positions as a technical executive in the private sector,
including Boehringer Ingleheim (UK and Australia) and theAustralian Self Medication Industry (ASMI).
Independent of her ACCORD role, Capanna was the only
industry representative appointed by the Minister to the National
Drugs & Poison Scheduling Committee (NDPSC) from 1994 until it
was disbanded in July 2010. She was then appointed as the industry
expert on its replacement, the Advisory Committee on Chemicals
Scheduling (ACCS) until the end of 2014. Capanna is a member ofthe Agricultural Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority(APVMA)ʼ s Advisory Board. She was also the ﬁrst regulatory aﬀairs
specialist appointed to the Australian Governmentʼ s Medicines
Evaluation Committee (MEC).
Capanna was also appointed a member of the Chemicals &Plastics Leadership Group (CPLG) by Minister Macfarlane in 2002 andchaired the CPLGʼ s Regulatory Reform Working Group. She
continues to be highly engaged in the signiﬁcant reform agenda of
the industry at a national and international level, being represented
on senior stakeholder and consultation bodies of regulatory
agencies including the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) andthe National Industrial Chemicals Notiﬁcation and Assessment
Scheme (NICNAS), and through participation in fora such the APEC
Chemical Dialogue and the UN Strategic Approach to International
Chemical Management (SAICM).

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Invited Speech

AOSDAC 2015

Key JSDA Activities

Lei Zhang

Hirohiko Tadenuma
CCIA

JSDA

Japanese Home Laundry Habits and Practices

Status and trends of Chinese detergent supervisionand regulation

JSDA has been conducting consumer survey on their

China is a very large market because of the large

laundry habits and practices every 5 years. This survey isdevelopment of China detergent industry, the regulationsuch as the type of detergents, the capacity of washinguseful to realize changes of laundry conditions and habits,

opportunities and growing economy. With themachines, and rinse cycles. As JSDA just ﬁnished the 5thand standardization of detergents are developing. Thissurvey in this May, we will share its key ﬁndings.

paper gives a critical review on detergent standards andregulations in China. Food safety is more and moreemphasized by the government in recent years. The foodProﬁle:Hirohiko Tadenuma is the member of Laundry Science
Sub-Committee of Japan Soap and Detergent Association. He isworking in LION Corporation as an associate senior research
manager in fabric-care research laboratories. He graduated as aDoctor in Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1993.

related dishwashing detergent regulation is mainly
discussed.

Proﬁle:Lei Zhang is working in Nice Group as deputy general manager
of Nice Zhejiang Science & Technology Company, responsible forR&D. She is the vice chairman member of China National
Standardization Committee of Surfactant and Detergent. She got
Bachelor Degree of ﬁne chemical in Wuxi Light Industry Institute in1986 and got Master Degreeof ﬁne chemical in East China Universityof Science and Technology in 1995. She was R&D director anddeputy general manager of Hutchison Whitecat Company Limited
and responsible for R&D for nearly 30 years.

http://jsda.org/e/-5-

October 16 th , 2015
Tokyo, JapanKey JSDA Activities

AOSDAC 2015

Key JSDA Activities

Yoshiharu Kumagai

Koichi Yanagita
JSDA

JSDA

JSDA Safe Use Icons

Voluntary reduction in plastic use
JSDA has been investigating the amount of plastic

JSDA started GHS labeling for dishwashing detergents,

acid/alkaline cleaners and chlorine bleaches from January

usage for containers from 1995 and publishing the data.

JSDA conducted consumer survey on GHS labeling, andprimary voluntary action plan to cut 30% plastic

usages, precautions and ﬁrst aids rather than hazard

Under the member companiesʼ eﬀorts like reﬁll

In 2006, as more aggressive measures, we released the2011. In April 2012, i.e. one year after the GHS labeling,

consumption per product shipments by 2010.

found that consumers would like to know more aboutinformation. Now JSDA is developing a set of safe use

technology development and the understanding of

so that consumers use JSDA products more safety. In thismore than the goal in the ﬁnal year.

retailers and consumers, we were able to get the big result

icons in order to provide clearer messages to consumers

Following this achievement, in 2011, we have madepresentation we will share key ﬁndings from the consumer

the secondary voluntary action plan to set 40% reduction

survey, and JSDA safe use icons.

by 2015, and have been reporting the progress to society
every year.

Proﬁle:Yoshiharu Kumagai is working in Proctor and Gamble Japan as asection head in Global Products Stewardship, R&D, and is
responsible for product / environmental safety of cleaning products
and their regulations.
At JSDA, he is a vice chair of Product Safety Labeling Task Force,and has worked for development of JSDA GHS implementation
guidance.

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I will introduce some technologies and promotion

methods for this plastic reduction.

Proﬁle:Koichi Yanagita is working in Kao Corporation as the vicepresident of environment and safety. At JSDA, he is the chair of
special committee established for package and container.

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