FY18 Cuts To EPA CompTox Research Could Hinder TSCA Implementation

摘要

Significant cuts to EPA's computational toxicology research efforts could stymie the agency's ongoing efforts to implement sweeping revisions to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which include mandates for the agency to reduce animal testing and craft a strategy to adopt non-animal toxicity testing methods. The cut is "short-sighted. It will have significant medium to long-term consequences to [EPA's ability to] meet the requirements of the law," EPA's former toxics chief Jim Jones told Inside EPA during a brief interview at the Safer Sustainable Products Summit in Washington, D.C. on June 1. "These technologies allow the agencies to make decisions more quickly.... This is a meaningful way to make government more efficient."