Environmentalists, Industry Back Safer Choice Data For TSCA Prioritization

Environmental and industry officials are generally supporting EPA's potential plan to use information from the agency's Safer Choice product labeling program to identify chemicals that are low-priority for review under the revised toxics law, but they are raising competing concerns, including how much additional data would be required. At a May 14 Safer Choice Partner & Stakeholder Summit in Oxon Hill, MD, EPA staff backed using the program's Safer Chemical Ingredients List (SCIL) of roughly 1,000 substances as a starting...