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Frequently Asked Questions About Chemical Regulation
Frequently Asked Questions About Chemical Regulation What is toxicity testing? What are some concerns with the use of animals in toxicity testing? What is the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)? Is TSCA in need of modernization? How can chemical regulatory legislation be more effective? What is the Saf |
Analysis of the HPV Challenge: Industry Violations and EPA Negligence
By Nicole Cardello, M.H.S. Executive Summary The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) High Production Volume (HPV) Challenge encourages chemical companies to volunteer to conduct screening-level animal toxicity tests on 2,800 industrial chemicals. Pursuant to this program, companies have committed to |
Chemical Testing Resources
Chemical Testing Resources PCRM Fact Sheets and Publications | Links | Scientific Articles PCRM Fact Sheets and Publications PCRM Testimony before the Superfund, Toxics, and Environmental Health Subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Assessing the Safe Chemicals Act, |
Chemical Testing Basics
Chemical Testing Basics Toxicity Testing | Toxic Substance Control Act Reform Legislative revisions to the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) will change the way industrial chemicals are regulated. Since chemicals are regulated based on their potential toxic effects, whether, how, and when toxicity testing is |
The Availability of HPV Chemical Data
In early October 1998, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the High Production Volume (HPV) Chemical Challenge program, calling for toxicity testing on 2,800 chemicals imported or manufactured in amounts over one million pounds per year. This program was apparently devised in closed-door meetings betwee |
Testimony on High Production Volume Chemical Tests to the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
Neal D. Barnard, M.D. June 17, 1999 As a physician and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, I would like to thank Chairman Calvert and the members of the Committee for the opportunity to comment on the EPA’s High Production Volume Challenge program. We are greatly concerned about seve |
Chemical Testing Basics TSCA Reform
Chemical Testing Basics Toxicity Testing | Toxic Substance Control Act Reform About the Toxic Substances Control Act The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) was signed into law in 1976 and has been the prevailing legislation governing industrial che |
Growing Skepticism over Animal Tests
By Neal D. Barnard, M.D. The August 20, 1999 issue of the journal Science reported that some common animal tests may be utterly unreliable. A strain of mice, called CD-1, has been used to test whether various chemicals have hormone-like effects but turns out to be extremely resistant to estrogen effec |
PCRM Brings EPA to Court over Cruel and Useless Tests
Many readers will remember the movie Erin Brockovich, that disturbing story about chemical companies dumping millions of gallons of toxic by-products into the environment. While innocent people were being poisoned, government regulators did nothing to stop it. Luckily, the feisty Brockovich unearthed the truth and |
Testing of Industrial Chemicals: Strategies that Save Animals
Starting with the testimony of Neal Barnard, M.D., to Congress in 1999, PCRM has worked to prevent the deaths of animals in large testing programs such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) High Production Volume Chemical Challenge Program (HPV Program), which gathered data on industrial chemicals pr |
Millions of Animals Saved from Chemical Toxicity Tests
PCRM recently joined several organizations to save 4.5 million animals from toxicity testing. The groups persuaded the European Chemicals Agency to take action that prevents these animals from dying in long-term chemical-poisoning tests. And in the United States last week, the Environmental Protection Agency also a |
PCRM Statement on the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act of 2010 (H.R. 5820)
News and Media PCRM STATEMENT ON THE TOXIC CHEMICALS SAFETY ACT OF 2010 (H.R. 5820) Key Improvements Needed: Effective Public Health Protection is Dependent on Modern and Efficient Toxicity Testing Methods The Toxic Chemicals Safety Act of 2010 (TCSA), introduced last week by Rep. Bobby Rush, chairman of t |
New Chemical Legislation Could Help Protect Future Generations
By Samuel L. Jacobs, M.D. This opinion piece was printed on May 11, 2010, in the North Jersey Record. As if new parents didn’t have enough to worry about, now they have to ponder the safety of their baby’s bottle. As an obstetrician and gynecologist, I have patients who are losing sleep over whether the |
PCRM Pushes for Major Cuts in Animal Testing
PCRM scientists traveled to Rome in September to help coordinate international efforts to reduce animal testing and to share expertise on a U.S. legislative proposal that could determine the fate of millions of animals. At the Seventh World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, PCRM toxicolo |
Zero Animal Testing Proposed in Tier 0 Toxicology Testing
Little is known about the toxicity of many of the estimated 70,000 chemicals in commerce in the United States. To address this growing public health dilemma, chemicals of greatest concern need to receive priority. At a recent conference, PCRM advocated for greater use of “tiered” testing approaches that |
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