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The inventory was first proposed in a 1985 New York Times op-ed piece written by David Sarokin and Warren Muir, researchers for an environmental group, Inform, Inc. [2] Congress established TRI under Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA), and later expanded it in the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 (PPA).
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is a United States law, passed by the 94th United States Congress in 1976 and administered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that regulates chemicals not regulated by other U.S. federal statutes, [1] including chemicals already in commerce and the introduction of new chemicals.
list of suppliers and catalog numbers "eMolecules". 8,000,000 [5] ENCS Japanese Existing and New Chemical Substances Inventory: regulated chemicals "ENCS (in Japanese)". Evaluated Kinetic Data IUPAC: rate constants curated "Evaluated Kinetic Data". FDA SRS Food and Drug Administration Substance Registration System U.S. National Library of Medicine
A 2007 list was published in 2009. [7] As of 2009 the EPA's HPV list had 2,539 chemicals, while the HPV Challenge Program chemical list contained only 1,973 chemicals because inorganic chemicals and polymers were not included. [8] The EPA has published an online list of HPV chemicals since 2010. The list is not numerated and without footnotes. [1]
NDSL – Canadian Non-Domestic Substances List; KECL (Korean ECL) – Korean Existing Chemicals List; ENCS (MITI) – Japanese Existing and New Chemical Substances; PICCS – Philippine Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances; TSCA – US Toxic Substances Control Act; Giftliste 1 (Swiss list of toxic substances, repealed in 2005) [27]
The original edition, known as the Toxic Substances List was published on June 28, 1971, and included toxicological data for approximately 5,000 chemicals. The name changed later to its current name Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances. In January 2001 the database contained 152,970 chemicals.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published a list of "extremely hazardous substances (EHS)." For each EHS, the list includes the name, the Chemical Abstract Service number of the substance, and a number called a threshold planning quantity (TPQ). The TPQ, expressed in pounds, is the critical number.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency's most important law to regulate the production, use and disposal of chemicals is the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA). Over the years, TSCA has fallen behind the industry it is supposed to regulate and is an inadequate tool for providing the protection against today's chemical risks. [3]