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Washington, D.C. (June 24, 2013): The Biobased Products Advocacy Consortium (B2PAC) debuted today a new name, logo, and web address to describe more fully and descriptively the wide range of industrial biotechnology products made by its member companies. The consortium is now known as the Biobased and Renewable Products Advocacy Group, or BRAG. The new name and logo were previewed last week at the 2013 Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) World...
On June 19, 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of a fact sheet intended to provide guidance on reporting chemical substances that are or contain different isotopes of the same elements that are already on the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Inventory. Elemental isotopes have the same number of protons and therefore are the "same" element, but differ in molecular weight and possibly other properties because of a differing number of neutrons. EPA...
June 19, 2013
EPA Publishes Final Second List Of Chemicals And Substances For Tier 1 Screening and Draft Paper on Endocrine Disruptors
EPA Publishes Final EDSP Policies And Procedures And Final Second List Of Chemicals And Substances For Tier 1 Screening: On June 14, 2013, EPA published a Federal Register notice describing its final policies and procedures for requiring Tier 1 screening under the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP) of chemicals for which EPA may issue EDSP test orders pursuant to Section 1457 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) and Section 408(p) of...
Regulation (EC) No. 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of November 30, 2009, on Cosmetic Products will come into force on July 11, 2013, and repeals the Cosmetics Directive Regulation (Directive 76/768/EEC) provisions concerning carcinogenic, mutagenic, or toxic for reproduction (CMR) substances that have applied since December 1, 2010. The European Commission (EC) states that the Cosmetics Directive "until now ensured that products circulate...
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, held a June 13, 2013, hearing on "Title I of the Toxic Substances Control Act: Understanding its History and Reviewing its Impact." The oversight hearing was intended to improve the Subcommittee's understanding of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and its implementation. The background memorandum for the hearing notes that Title I authorizes the U.S. Environmental Protection...
An Inside EPA article reporting on TSCA reform, “Despite States' Rights Push, Key Republican Seeks Preemption Under TSCA,” featured comments made by Kathleen M. Roberts before a House Subcommittee hearing entitled “Title I of the Toxic Substances Control Act: Understanding its History and reviewing its Impact.” “Kathleen Roberts, of the industry law firm Bergeson & Campbell, argued that ‘I would be concerned if there was not a 'least burdensome' aspect in the...
June 6, 2013
“TSCA Premanufacture Notifications: The New State of Play”—a webinar presented by Bloomberg BNA
Thursday, June 27, 2013 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (EDT) Join Lynn L. Bergeson, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.; Kathleen M. Roberts, B&C® Consortia Management, L.L.C.; Jim Alwood, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT); and Tracy Williamson, Ph.D., EPA's OPPT for an informative, interactive, and lively webinar designed to help you...
May 29, 2013
The New York Times Features Comments from Charles M. Auer on Chemical Safety Improvement Act
In an editorial titled “An Opening to Strengthen Chemical Regulations,” the editorial board of the New York Times featured comments from B&C® affiliate Charles M. Auer of Charles Auer & Associates, LLC on the Chemical Safety Improvement Act of 2013, introduced in the Senate to revise the Toxic Substances Control Act: “Charles Auer, a career scientist and senior official at the agency under George W. Bush, has praised the bill for potentially resolving the...
Inside EPA featured B&C®’s commentary in an article titled “Early Concerns Hint At Senate Debate Over Bipartisan TSCA Reform Bill.” Read the full commentary, “The Chemical Safety Improvement Act: An In-Depth Review and Analysis,” here....
In a stunning bipartisan show of support for reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) that few saw coming, Senators David Vitter (R-LA) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) (among bipartisan others) introduced on May 22, 2013, the Chemical Safety Improvement Act (CSIA), later designated S. 1009, available online. CSIA provides a new and streamlined approach to reform TSCA that stakeholders may view favorably when compared to prior legislative templates that have been...