Learn the Issues
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Alternatives Assessment: Partnership to Evaluate Flame Retardants in Printed Circuit Boards
The partnership project on flame retardants in printed circuit boards seeks to improve understanding of the environmental and human health impacts of new and current materials that can be used to meet fire safety standards
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Flame Retardants Used in Flexible Polyurethane Foam
The partnership project on flame retardants in furniture seeks to update the health and environmental profiles of flame-retardant chemicals that meet fire safety standards for upholstered consumer products with polyurethane foam
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Partnership to Evaluate Alternatives to Bisphenol A in Thermal Paper
The partnership project for alternatives assessment of alternatives to BPA in thermal paper sought to assess potential hazards for BPA and alternatives to reduce the possibility of unintended consequences of using substitutes
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Partnership to Evaluate Flame Retardant Alternatives to HBCD
The partnership project on alternatives to HBCD was convened to compare human health and environmental impacts of HBCD and its alternatives to inform decision-making
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Вовлечение населения в решение проблемы этиленоксида (ЭО)
Этиленоксид (EtO) – это бесцветный легковоспламеняющийся газ. Как правило, он не имеет запаха в концентрациях, обнаруживаемых за пределами помещений или сообществ.
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SmartWay Partner Achievements
This page lists the types of partner recognition in the SmartWay program.
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Technology Transitions Notices of Data Availability
Notice of Data Availability Relevant to Petition Submissions Under the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act of 2020
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Compliance and Enforcement Policy and Guidance
Find EPA policies and guidance on underground storage tanks compliance and enforcement.
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Is My Facility a "Qualified Facility" under the SPCC Rule?
How to determine if you facility is a qualified facility under SPCC.
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Vegetable Oils and Animal Fats
non-petroleum oils are also regulated under CFR 112. Like petroleum oils, they can cause devastating physical effects, be toxic, destroy food supplies and habitats, produce rancid odors, foul shorelines and treatment plants, be flammable, and linger.
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Papers Addressing Scientific Issues in the Risk Assessment of Metals
To inform the consideration of metals properties, and to engage the external scientific community, the Agency commissioned external experts to lead the development of a series of issue papers.
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Methods for Identifying a Default Cross-Species Scaling Factor (Rhomsberg, 2004)
Provides a rationale for selecting default cross-species extrapolation factors with which to scale oral doses across species for non-carcinogenic endpoints.
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Antimicrobial Exposure Assessment Task Force II (AEATF II) Volume 5: Governing Document for a Multi-Year Antimicrobial Chemical Exposure Monitoring Program (interim draft document with changes)
This document describes the overall scope of the AEATF II program, demonstrates the need for additional human exposure monitoring data and explains the proposed methodology for the exposure monitoring studies proposed for conduct by the AEATF II.
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External Review Draft: Harmonization in Interspecies Extrapolation: Use of BW 3/4 as Default Method in Derivation of the Oral RfD
Recommends procedures, inclusive of default procedures, that will be used to estimate oral exposures in terms of human equivalents for all toxicologic endpoints.
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Issue Paper on the Human Health Effects of Metals
This paper discusses issues important to consider in developing a framework for performing human health assessments for exposure to metals and metal compounds
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Antimicrobial Exposure Assessment Task Force II (AEATF II) Volume 5: Governing Document for a Multi-Year Antimicrobial Chemical Exposure Monitoring Program (interim draft document)
Describes the overall scope of the AEATF II program, demonstrates the need for additional human exposure monitoring data and explains the proposed methodology for the exposure monitoring studies proposed for conduct by the AEATF II.
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Rail Facility Best Practices to Improve Air Quality
Provides best practices that can be utilized by rail facilities to improve air quality including reducing idle emissions from locomotives, upgrading older locomotives, and minimizing locomotive activities near at-risk populations.
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Issue Paper on the Ecological Effects of Metals
A summary of biological and ecological responses to metals, and discuss the role of descriptive and predictive methods used to characterize effects of metals in risk assessment.
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Issue Paper on the Environmental Chemistry of Metals
EPA has identified three types of regulatory risk assessments where information regarding speciation of metals is useful and desirable: national hazard/risk ranking and characterization, site-specific assessments, and National Regulatory Assessments.