EPA Plan To Regulate New Nano Uses Could Aid Data Collection Efforts

摘要

EPA is pursuing a broad "significant new use rule" (SNUR) to better regulate uses of nanomaterials under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), according to the agency's top toxics official, which could allow the agency to collect more data on the emerging materials after a Bush-era voluntary effort to collect the data produced lackluster results.rnSteve Owens, head of EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, outlined the new approach at a Feb. 5 panel at an American Law Institute-American Bar Association conference in Bethesda, MD.