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TSCA and the Ink Industry

Government regulations are a challenge for ink manufacturers and their suppliers.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

Government regulations are constantly a challenge for ink manufacturers and their suppliers, and when there is a change on governments, those changes can be even more abrupt. Even laws that were agreed to by all parties have unintended consequences. Such is the case in the US with the Toxic Substances Control Act, or, as it is better known, TSCA. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 provides EPA with authority to require reportin...

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