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Lois Capps: “Under current law, TSCA has used an 'unreasonable risk' standard to evaluate the safety of a chemical.”

On the recordApril 13, 2015
Under current law, TSCA has used an 'unreasonable risk' standard to evaluate the safety of a chemical.
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Lois Capps

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Capps critiques the TSCA's cost-benefit evaluation method for chemical safety.

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