EPA Official Sees 10-Year ‘Horizon’ For TSCA New Chemicals Initiative

A science advisor at EPA’s chemicals office says the agency’s recently launched effort to “modernize” its TSCA reviews of new chemicals could take as long as a decade to conclude, forecasting a long process that will continue through multiple administrations, though she added that some of the reforms could be ready in as few as three years. During the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods’ (ICCVAM) annual symposium on May 26, Anna Lowit, a senior science advisor...