EPA Sees One-Year Wait For Final TSCA Systematic Review Framework

An EPA spokesperson says the agency’s long-awaited final approach to systematic review in TSCA chemical evaluations is still “at least six month[s] to a year away,” signaling that it will continue to review its current round of existing chemicals under a draft model that peer reviewers said last year requires dozens of changes despite experts’ push for “urgent” reforms to the method. “[T]he revised protocol is still in development and will be made public upon its completion, which is at...