First 10 Chemicals Up for TSCA Risk Evaluation

Posted on 12/1/2016 by Roger Marks

Under the Toxic Substances Control Act, as amended this year by the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21^st Century Act, EPA is required to evaluate chemicals for potential risks to human health and the environment.

In a Work Plan started in 2012, EPA identified 90 chemicals as candidates for risk evaluation.

This week, EPA announced the first ten chemicals up for evaluation, many of which are used in consumer products:

1, 4-Dioxane
·1-Bromopropane
Asbestos
Carbon Tetrachloride
Cyclic Aliphatic Bromide Cluster (HBCD)
Methylene Chloride (MCL)
N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP)
Pigment Violet 29 Anthra [2,1,9-def:6,5,10-d’e’f] diisoquinoline-1,3,8,10(2H,9H)-tetrone
Trichloroethylene
Tetrachloroethylene (a.k.a perchloroethylene)

See the list, and EPA’s reasoning for its selections, here.

What’s EPA’s Next Step Under TSCA?

EPA will move forward with evaluating these ten chemicals. Each time EPA completes a risk evaluation, the law requires the Agency to begin another. By the end of 2019, EPA will be working on 20 chemical risk evaluations at any one time, as required by law.

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