As I begin my fourth full year as Assistant Administrator for chemical safety, my highest priority is to continue building on the progress that we’ve made in the last few years. When I started in this job, it was clear, despite the widely acknowledged shortcomings of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), we needed to stand up a credible existing chemicals programme. “Existing chemicals” are those that were already in commerce when TSCA was enacted in the 1970s, and were allowed to remain so without further evaluation, except in unusual cases.
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