Industry Attorneys Doubt EPA’s Push For TSCA Prioritization Reporting

Industry attorneys are questioning EPA’s use of a long-neglected TSCA power to gather companies’ logs of “significant adverse reactions” on at least one of the five chemicals the agency is now prioritizing for risk evaluation and regulation, saying any data it receives is unlikely to satisfy the law’s requirement to only use the “best available science” in formal actions. Data collected under the Toxic Substances Control Act’s (TSCA) section 8(c) is “anecdotal, it could just be a hunch that the...