Stakeholders Flag Early Concerns On EPA TSCA Risk Evaluation Proposal

Stakeholders tracking EPA's implementation of the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) are flagging early concerns over the agency's draft rule to establish a chemical risk evaluation process under the new law, including how the agency will consider the various uses of substances and how it will make inferences from chemical risk data. EPA has until June 2017 to develop criteria and a final implementing rule outlining how agency staff will establish a process for evaluating the risk of existing...