David Savastano, Editor01.21.21
In 2016, the US implemented the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act (LCSA or New TSCA), which was its attempt to simplify the existing regulatory approach. However, it may have had unintended consequences.
Industry regulatory leaders said that the ink industry and its supplies have been impacted by the implementation of LCSA, including slowing down the approval process as well as higher costs for approvals.
According to environmental lawyers Tom Berger and James Votaw at Keller and Heckman LLP, new and existing inks and ink products have been adversely impacted by the 2016 enactment of the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act (LCSA), which amended the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) (15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.).
According to Berger and Votaw, companies developing new inks for manufacture, import, and/or use in the US have had to navigate a more onerous and protracted TSCA Section 5 new chemical premanufacture notification (PMN) process. The amendments req
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