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Chemical CBI Claims: Reverse Engineering Questions Proposed by EPA

By William C. Schillaci Nov 19, 2019 Chemicals

Updated: Nov 19, 2019

The EPA is proposing to add two questions to the list of questions chemical manufacturers (which include importers) and processors must answer to substantiate claims that the identities of chemicals must be protected from public disclosure. Both questions relate to reverse engineering, defined as a process “to disassemble and examine or analyze in detail (a […]

TSCA Inventory Rule Case Raises Questions about Substantiation, Reverse Engineering

By William C. Schillaci May 8, 2019 Chemicals

Updated: May 8, 2019

In September 2017, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to find five aspects of the EPA’s final rule, TSCA Inventory Notification (Active-Inactive) Requirements (Aug. 11, 2017, Federal Register (FR)), unlawful. On April 26, 2019, a three-judge panel responded by denying four of the EDF’s challenges, therefore […]