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Practitioner Insights: Rapid Tests Transform Chemical Safety Calls

The EPA needs to make safety-related decisions on thousands of chemicals to accomplish its mission. To address this issue, EPA is developing faster and more economical approaches to measure and predict the properties of chemicals it oversees and incorporate the data into a range of on-line dashboards to support regulatory and health decision making.

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Practitioner Insights: Rapid tests transform chemical safety calls (PDF)(23 pp, 294 K, June 14, 2017)