What is the Toxic Substances Control Act?
The TSCA (15 U.S.C. s/s 2601 et seq.), enacted by Congress in 1976, gives the Environmental Protection Agency the ability to track industrial chemicals currently produced or imported into the United States. The EPA screens these chemicals and can require reporting, testing or banning of those that may pose an environmental or human-health hazard. However, the TSCA does not require companies to test chemicals before they notify the EPA of their intent to manufacture them (see We’re Loaded with Toxins: Analyzing the Toxic Body Burden of Americans by Judy Chinitz Gorman).
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