EPA Outlines Research Plan To ‘Modernize’ TSCA New Chemicals Reviews

EPA’s toxics and research offices have released a draft agenda for their recently announced joint effort to “modernize” the TSCA program’s approach to reviewing new chemicals, outlining “a multi-year collaborative research program” that also involves the National Toxicology Program (NTP) and is already partly underway. On March 10, the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) and Office of Research and Development (ORD) posted “ a high-level overview ” of their action plan for Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) new-chemical...