Industry Presses EPA For ‘Clear Benchmarks’ In TSCA Prioritization

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) is pressing EPA to set out “clear benchmarks” it will use to decide which chemicals to put through the TSCA prioritization process that leads to risk evaluation and regulation, while urging it to consider several factors in particular such as toxicity thresholds and existing occupational exposure values. “[W]e are not advocating for numerical criteria, per se, but more context around the identified information for each element and how that affects EPA’s decision-making,” ACC wrote in...