A Replacement-first Approach to Toxicity Testing is Necessary to Successfully Reauthorize TSCA

Written by: Paul A. Locke and D. Bruce Myers, Jr. Published in Altex in May, 2011.

In the United States, the problems of chemicals in the environment and their potential effects on human health came into focus in the 1960s and 1970s. Although federal (national) and state laws did address some issues raised by chemicals in the environment (such as laws covering the use of pesticides), before the passage of tSCA in 1976 there was no comprehensive US federal law governing the introduction of chemicals in commerce. Like many of the federal environmental laws first enacted in the US in the 1970s and 1980s, the toxic Substances Control Act1 was drafted during a time in the United States when environmental problems were high on the US public’s social and political agenda… Read more of the article in Altex.