EPA Advisors Urged To Weigh Data For Key TSCA Risk Finding On PV29

Environmentalists are urging EPA science advisors ahead of their upcoming meeting to examine whether the agency provided adequate data for its draft conclusion that pigment violet 29 (PV29) does not pose unreasonable risk, stepping up their long-running effort to challenge EPA’s first assessment of an existing chemical under the revised toxics law. In June 11 comments to EPA’s Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC), which is slated to meet June 18-21 to review the agency’s draft assessment of PV29, several...