Industry Eyes Options To Avoid CBI Hurdles In New TSCA Reporting Rule

An industry attorney says EPA’s new TSCA rule requiring companies to submit existing toxicity studies on 50 chemicals could create “enormous problems” for firms that conducted such studies for European regulators but consider them confidential business information (CBI), and is seeking to organize an industry group to resolve the issue with the agency. Herb Estreicher, a partner with the law firm Keller and Heckman, said during the firm’s July 14 TSCA 30/30 webinar that EPA’s newly finalized Toxic Substances Control...