EPA has finalized its long-awaited TSCA risk evaluation of formaldehyde, finding that 58 out of the 63 uses it analyzed for the common industrial chemical “significantly contribute to the unreasonable risk of injury to human health.”
Release of the evaluation triggers the Toxic Substances Control Act’s (TSCA) mandate for regulatory action to address those unreasonable risks, but Republicans and industry have broadly called for overhauling how EPA approaches that duty, and specifically redoing the Biden administration’s findings on formaldehyde -- either of which could greatly delay what the law says should be a two-year process.
- Executive Summary
- Ambient Air Exposure Assessment
- Chemistry Fate and Transport
- Conditions Of Use
- Consumer Exposure Assessment
- Environmental Exposure Assessment
- Environmental Hazard Assessment
- Environmental Release Assessment
- Environmental Risk Assessment
- Human Health Hazard Assessment
- Human Health Risk Assessment
- Indoor Air Exposure Assessment
- Nontechnical Summary
- Occupational Exposure Assessment
- Response To Comments
- Unreasonable Risk Determination