ATSDR Floats Draft Tox Profiles For Mercury, Other Substances

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has released for public comment four new draft toxicological profiles, including one for multiple forms of mercury, a toxic metalloid that EPA is also assessing and which Congress directed EPA to inventory the uses of in its reform of TSCA. ATSDR released April 27 draft toxicological profiles for mercury, copper, nitrobenzene and nitrophenols. The agency has set a public comment deadline of July 26. ATSDR’s new draft mercury tox profile describes...