What is the Chemical Right-to-Know Program?
The Chemical Right-to-Know Program (ChemRTK) is a comprehensive new initiative that focuses on three major components. The program is designed to assure that adequate information is available to the public to assess risks for chemicals that are present in the local environments. The program responds to study findings that many commercial chemicals have very little toxicity information that is publicly available and that would be adequate for chemical risk assessment purposes. The project, to be implemented by EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT), will accelerate the development and dissemination of public health and environmental testing data through three main components: -EPA will obtain baseline test data on the High Production Volume (HPV) commercial chemicals. -EPA will assure extensive testing on chemicals to which children are disproportionately exposed. -EPA will collect Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) release information on high-priority Persistent Bioaccumula
