Experts Urge Industry To Share Occupational Exposure Data With EPA

Industry experts are urging chemical manufacturers to proactively share occupational exposure data with EPA during TSCA risk evaluations of existing chemicals, even if the data was collected for other regulatory purposes, and provide contextual details that could result in more accurate assessments. In the absence of data, EPA will substitute “very conservative assumptions,” Andrew Maier, principal health scientist at Integral Consulting LLC, said April 15 at the American Chemistry Council’s annual GlobalChem conference in Washington, D.C. “We definitely found that...