Industry Eyes Novel TSCA Analysis For Siloxanes But Doubts Need For Rules

The chemical industry is preparing a risk evaluation of a siloxane, one of a class of chemicals used to produce a host of industrial and consumer products, which will likely be one of the first that EPA receives under a provision of the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) that allows third parties to submit such evaluations to EPA for its consideration. But even before the industry completes or submits its risk evaluation to EPA, industry officials say they do...