Regulation of Some Chemicals Quicker Under TSCA Amendments

Chemicals with certain hazardous characteristics must be regulated quicker under the amended U.S. chemicals law than substances without those properties, an attorney said July 13.

Cadmium and cadmium compounds along with chromium and chromium compounds are among the chemicals that meet the law’s criteria for high priority persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals, Martha Marrapese, an attorney with Keller and Heckman LLP, said during a webinar the law firm hosted.

Companies and other parties that have data which could affect the Environmental Protection Agency’s possible regulation of high priority chemicals should take advantage of the many opportunities the amended law provides ...