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TSCA Reform is on the Brink of Passage

Industry leaders look forward to passage of bill that will standardize chemical regulations.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

Forty years ago, the US Congress passed the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Administered by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), TSCA was designed to regulate the introduction of new or already existing chemicals; all previous chemicals were considered to be safe, and were grandfathered in. When a company looked to introduce a new chemical, it would have to file information with the EPA.   There are a few problems here, of course, not the least of which was that TSCA had never be...

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