Process to Select Chemicals for Risk Review Proposed: EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency released a proposed rule Jan. 13 describing a risk-based process it would use to identify chemicals in commerce that are high priorities for risk evaluation and low priority chemicals that don’t warrant scrutiny.

The proposed rule, required by the Toxic Substances Control Act amendments of 2016, is designed to create what the EPA called a “gateway to risk evaluation.”

The EPA would use the process and criteria in the proposed ...