EPA's TSCA Analysis Finds TCE Risks Despite Rejecting Heart Defect Study

摘要

EPA's draft risk evaluation of the common solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) finds multiple uses present unreasonable risks to exposed workers and consumers under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), even though the agency declined to use a controversial study indicating potential for congenital heart defects that industry has long disputed. The draft evaluation, released Feb. 21, finds the chemical does not pose unreasonable risk to the environment, but does pose unreasonable risks to workers, consumers and bystanders in numerous scenarios.