Industry Urges CPSC To Weigh New Data Before Finalizing Phthalate Ban

The chemical sector is asking the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to drop a 2017 rule banning five phthalates in toy sales, following a judicial remand over procedural flaws in the rulemaking, arguing that more recent science shows lower risks from one of the chemicals that is also under TSCA evaluation. While Congress first banned the widely-used plasticizer diisononyl phthalate (DINP) in toys and some other products in a 2008 “interim” legislative measure -- and CPSC made that policy permanent...