EPA unveils first TSCA evaluation

EPA is seeking comment and peer review on a draft assessment of Colour Index Pigment Violet 29 (PV29), the first of the 10 evaluations it is conducting of existing chemicals under the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). One reason that PV29 is the first of the drafts released is that it “is probably the easiest of the 10 chemicals to evaluate and will raise fewer issues than others,” an environmentalist attorney tells Inside EPA , while adding that “there...