EPA's Novel Process For Speeding Review Of New Chemicals Draws Fire

EPA has adopted a novel approach for reviewing “new” chemicals before approving them for market, an approach intended to address the backlog that resulted from legislation reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), though some charge the agency's new approach will impose onerous reporting requirements on most new chemicals. Wendy Cleland-Hamnett, acting assistant administrator of EPA's toxics office in keynote remarks at the Safer Products Summit in Washington, D.C. June 1 confirmed an industry lawyer's question that EPA is using...