EPA Says Non-Animal Data Can Justify Lifting Chemical Rules (1)

Lung damage data for a chemical—generated without using experimental animals—recently allowed the EPA to revoke a rule restricting how companies could produce that chemical, a senior agency official said Monday.

Repealing that rule illustrates the Environmental Protection Agency’s growing use of toxicity data about chemicals generated by cell, genetic, computer, and other tests instead of laboratory animals, Louis “Gino” Scarano and other EPA scientists said during a two-day workshop that ended Tuesday.

The workshop was the second meeting about the EPA’s growing use for regulations and other decisions of information from non-animal chemical testing methods, and highlighted such methods that ...