Attorneys Query EPA's TSCA Prioritization Approach After Low Risk Finding

December 27, 2018
Industry attorneys are questioning the prioritization approach EPA used to select the first 10 chemicals EPA is assessing as part of its new Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) program for existing chemicals, arguing that the selection of Pigment Violet 29 (PV29), which appears to be a low-risk chemical, begs the question of how it could be deemed a priority. “It's rather puzzling this showed up on the [TSCA] work plan in the first place, it's supposed to be high-risk substances,”...


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