EPN Urges EPA To Revive TSCA Pre-Prioritization Plan With Test Orders

March 1, 2021
A group of former EPA officials is urging the agency to aggressively use TSCA test orders not just for chemicals under evaluation but to fill in “data gaps” as part of a pre-prioritization process, reviving a long-running debate over whether and how to mandate testing before the agency decides whether to prioritize a substance for assessment. In a Feb. 26 letter to EPA’s principal deputy chemicals chief Michal Freedhoff -- currently the chemicals office’s top political appointee -- the Environmental...


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