EPA Draft Evaluations For DIBP, BPP Find Some Unreasonable Risks

EPA has released draft TSCA risk evaluations for phthalates known as DIBP and BPP that find the chemicals present some unreasonable risk of injury to human health based on exposure to workers as well as unreasonable risks to the environment from some conditions of use (COUs) -- TSCA’s trigger to develop risk management rules. The evaluations of di-isobutyl phthalate (DIBP) and butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) are two in a package of six phthalate risk evaluations EPA is conducting under the...