Upsurge in EPA Chemical Data Requests May Be at Odds With Law

The EPA’s new chemicals program is asking manufacturers for more toxicity information since Congress overhauled the nation’s primary chemicals law, according to an advocacy group’s recent analysis.

The number of toxicity tests that use laboratory animals, and which the EPA’s new chemicals program required or requested from companies, also increased. They went from 21 in 2015 under the original law to 331 in 2017 after Congress revised the law, Joe Manuppello, a senior research associate with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said at a recent Environmental Protection Agency meeting.

Two chemical manufacturing trade associations and ...