EPA Officials Detail Efforts To Interpret TSCA ‘Unreasonable Risk’ Bar

EPA officials speaking at a recent industry conference said the toxics office has wrestled with how to put TSCA’s “unreasonable risk” standard for chemical safety into practice since neither the law nor agency rules have ever defined that key term, as they faced questions on the lack of any concrete guidance for interpreting it. When asked by an industry representative what guidance EPA has on the definition of “unreasonable risk” during the recent mid-year meeting of the American Cleaning Institute...