Texas Risk Assessors Request Toxicity Data For 16 PFAS

September 2, 2021
Texas’s environment department is asking the public to submit toxicity information on 16 individual per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to help them update existing risk assessments of those chemicals, including some that EPA recently assessed or is scrutinizing under the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program. Texas Council on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) toxicology division Director Michael Honeycutt tells Inside TSCA that the agency is looking to update its prior assessments for the 16 PFAS, all of which have been...


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