Environmentalists, PRHE Say Draft Formaldehyde Review Understates Risk

Environmentalists and a scientist with a prominent academic center argued that EPA’s draft TSCA evaluation of formaldehyde “set dangerous precedent” by underestimating the ubiquitous chemical’s health risks during an ongoing peer review meeting for the document, pressing the agency’s science advisors to address their concerns during that process. Rashmi Jogelkar, with the University of California San Francisco’s Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE), argued that finalizing the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) formaldehyde draft without major changes “will...