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EPA’s TSCA Analysis Finds TCE Risks Despite Rejecting Heart Defect Study


February 24, 2020 at 04:12 PM
EPA’s draft risk evaluation of the common solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) finds multiple uses present unreasonable risks to exposed workers and consumers under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), even though the agency declined to use a controversial study indicating potential for congenital heart defects that industry has long disputed.

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