TSCA Update: Notes from Downstream

By Julia Murphy

Photo courtesy of TracyLynn Photography

The Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA (say it “Tosca”) was passed in 1976, under president Gerald Ford, to regulate and track industrial chemicals used in the United States. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was responsible for implementing TSCA’s goal of preventing “unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment. ”In spite of TSCA’s goal, approximately 62,000 chemicals that were in use when the law passed were never tested by the EPA because they were not considered an ‘unreasonable risk.’
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