California DTSC's Alternative Analyses Guide Falls Short Of Industry Needs
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
The Department of Toxic Substances Control's guidance for conducting the stage-1 alternatives analyses under California's Safer Consumer Products program lacks detail on the agency's "most basic internal process for evaluating data and other product information" to inform compliance decisions, industry coalitions say. The groups cite numerous areas in need of clarification in November comments to the agency.
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