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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.
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 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 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Modernization Act of 2015 (H.R. 2576), passed the House of Representatives on June 23, 2015. [10] Revised legislation, which resolved differences between the House and Senate versions, was forwarded to the President on June 14, 2016. [11] President Obama signed the bill into law on June 22, 2016.
drug screening 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
Two main policies that were changed by the PBT strategy were the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), which required more rigid chemical reporting, and the New Chemical Program (NCP) under the Toxics Substances Control Act (TSCA), which required screening for PBTs and PBT properties. [3]
It also maintains List I of chemicals and List II of chemicals, which contain chemicals that are used to manufacture the controlled substances/illicit drugs. The list is designated within the Controlled Substances Act [ 1 ] but can be modified by the U.S. Attorney General as illegal manufacturing practices change.
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