Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976

The Toxic Substances Control Act 1976 (TSCA, pronounced " Toska" ) is the U.S. " hazardous substance monitoring law" and the most important standard of the U.S. chemicals regulation.

History

In 1976 this law was passed by the Congress of the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA = U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ) was thus in a position to implement the protection against hazardous substances.

Comparable to the directories EINECS, ELINCS and NLP the EU, there is the TSCA Chemical Substance Inventory.

In TSCA Inventory substances are new substances not included and must be registered.

For example, only substances can be imported into the United States, which are listed on the TSCA Inventory.

A separate TSCA number does not exist, it will work with CAS numbers.

Examples of different chemical inventories

  • REACH - EU
  • AICS - Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances
  • DSL - Canadian Domestic Substances List
  • NDSL - Canadian Non- Domestic Substances List
  • KECL - Korean Existing Chemicals List
  • ENCS ( MITI Inventory ) - Japanese Existing and New Chemical Substances (see chemical law (Japan) )
  • PICCS - Philippine Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances
  • SWISS - List of Toxic Substances (until 2005)
United States Environmental Protection Agency EINECS number CAS registry number
781569
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