US EPA provides free public access to TSCA inventory

The US Environmental Protection Agency is providing free web access to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) chemical substance inventory. The inventory contains over 84,000 industrial chemicals notified as manufactured, used, or imported in the US to the agency under TSCA.

The agency notes that it plans to take further steps to increase transparency and make more information available to the public, including adding TSCA facility information, and the list of chemicals manufactured to the Facility Registry System (FRS) – an integrated database that aims to provide the public with easy access information.

In January EPA announced plans to tackle the high number of substances in the TSCA inventory, some 17,000 substances, for which information is not available as their notifiers have claimed the data is Confidential Business Information (CW 21 January 2010).

• EPA press release
• TSCA Inventory webpage