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Reviewing New Chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)

Standard Review Risk Assessment on Medium-chain and Long-chain Chlorinated paraffin PMN submissions by INEOS Chlor Americas

This assessment was conducted under EPA’s TSCA Section 5 New Chemicals Program using available hazard and exposure information on PMNs P-12-0453 and P-12-0433 submissions by INEOS Chlor Americas. EPA is assessing Medium-chain Chlorinated Paraffin (MCCP) and Long-Chain Chlorinated Paraffin (LCCP) chemicals as part of its New Chemicals Review program. As with all Premanufacture Notice (PMN) submissions, EPA followed the approaches, methods and statutory provisions of TSCA section 5 for the chlorinated paraffin PMNs assessments.

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Standard Review Risk Assessment of Medium-chain and Long-chain Chlorinated paraffins submitted as PMNs by INEOS (PDF)(123 pp, 971 K, December 22, 2015, EPA-HQ-OPPT-2015-07)
Standard review risk assessment of medium-chain and long-chain Chlorinated paraffins submitted as PMNs by INEOS