Testimony & Official Correspondence

EWG has submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency urging the EPA to include a 10-fold Food Quality Protection Act children’s health safety factor for the triclosan human health assessment and to consider all routes of exposure from all potential sources for triclosan in the final assessment for this antimicrobial chemical.

Key Issues: 

Toxics

Triclosan

Consumer Products

EWG submits comments on the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s Draft Toxicological Profile for Glyphosate, supporting the agency’s report of a possible link between glyphosate and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. EWG urges ATSDR to establish a more stringent minimal risk level for glyphosate and to incorporate into their assessment findings from recent publications on cancer and reproductive harm due to glyphosate.

Key Issues: 

Toxics

Glyphosate

Farming

Attached are EWG’s comments to the Environmental Protection Agency on its draft toxicological assessments of GenX, the PFOA replacement chemicals, and PFBS. EWG commends the agency and the IRIS program but urges the EPA to establish health-protective guidelines for this entire class of chemicals.

Key Issues: 

Toxics

Water

EWG comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s white paper on a working approach to chemical prioritization.

Key Issues: 

Toxics

Consumer Products