DOC 003 – Proposed Health Effects Test Standards for Toxic Substances Control ACT Test Rules

DOC 003 : Proposed Health Effects Test Standards for Toxic Substances Control ACT Test Rules | October 1979

The EPA on page 27334, column 1 states that the ultimate purpose of the stanards under consideration should be "to assure that data... can be used ... to determinte whether the tested chemicals present an unreasonable risk of oncongenic or other chronic effects, and to support regulatory actions to eliminate or reduce such risk." ECETOC shares the view that such data must be of adequate quality in all respects, but does not believe that the EPA proposals will lead to the achievement of such quality. Indeed, there are important aspects of these proposal whih will have the contrary effect, and will lead to a worsening in the protection of health from the possible adverse effects of chemicals. This proposition is developed in the document.