TSCA advisory committee sets dates for PV29 evaluation review

The US EPA’s TSCA Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) will convene in January to discuss the draft risk evaluation of pigment violet 29 – the first of ten assessments being completed under the reformed law. The peer review will take place during a 4-day, in-person public meeting. It will include a "general orientation for the TSCA SACC", and a portion closed to the public for discussion of information claimed as confidential business information (CBI), according to a pre-publication Federal Register notice. The SACC was established per the 2016 amendments to TSCA to provide scientific advice and recommendations to EPA. It currently comprises 26 members, representing academia, NGOs, industry and government organizations. The group will be reviewing each of the first ten draft risk evaluations issued under the reformed TSCA. In the case of PV 29, it will be charged with reviewing the 15 November draft evaluation which preliminarily determined that the substance does not present an unreasonable risk to human health or the environment.