SACC Offers Qualified Praise For Reworked TSCA Systematic Review Method

EPA’s Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) says the agency’s new approach to systematic review in TSCA chemical evaluations is “improved” from a Trump-era method that reviewers attacked as damaging to the program, but still requires a slew of more targeted fixes to bolster its transparency and consistency, among other elements. SACC’s formal peer review report , released July 21, comes exactly three months after the committee concluded its in-person meeting to consider the draft systematic review method, which describes...