EPA moves to finalise, propose 200 TSCA significant new use rules

摘要

The US EPA is moving to finalise 88 previously proposed TSCA significant new use rules (Snurs) and issue roughly 120 new ones, the agency has told Chemical Watch. Doing so will represent a significant step toward clearing a backlog of incomplete regulatory responses for several hundred new substances that have been approved to enter the marketplace in recent years. The EPA has proposed more than 700 Snurs since TSCA was amended in 2016, according to a database maintained by Chemical Watch. However, it has only finalised around 450 of those.