September 16, 2026

Environmentalists, Industry Press EPA On Workers’ Risk From Phthalates

By Emma Gardner
August 6, 2025 at 06:32 PM
Environmentalists and industry groups are raising concerns about how EPA estimated risk to workers from phthalates in technical documents that will support a novel cumulative risk assessment of the chemicals, alleging that methodological deficiencies resulted in assessments that either understated or overstated risk.

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