EPA Plan To ‘Modernize’ New Chemicals Reviews Underlines Split On NAMs

EPA’s draft agenda for overhauling its TSCA assessments of new chemicals is sparking a new clash on plans to make new approach methodologies (NAMs) a larger part of that process, with industry supporting it while environmental groups urge against cuts to animal tests they see as more reliable than the alternatives. In comments filed ahead of the May 10 deadline for input on EPA’s draft research agenda for Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) assessments of new chemicals, industry groups and...