Tag: perchlorate
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FDA Announces Decisions on Perchlorate in Food Seals, Packaging
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) denied a citizen petition to ban the use of perchlorates in dry food packaging while revoking regulations permitting the use of potassium perchlorate in food-container seals, saying industry makers no longer use the chemical. FDA said it will amend food additive regulations allowing the use of potassium perchlorate…
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Court Adopts EPA’s Language Admitting Failure to Set Perchlorate Limits
In a lawsuit brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) alleging failure to meet a deadline to set limits on perchlorate levels in drinking water, a New York federal court has issued an order adopting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) preferred language to admit the failure. Nat. Res. Def. Council v. EPA, No.…
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FDA Argues Time Frame for Perchlorate Decision is Reasonable
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has filed an opposition to a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking a response to several consumer groups’ petition to prohibit perchlorate, an additive currently approved for limited use in food packaging. Breast Cancer Fund v. FDA, No. 16-70878 (9th Cir., petition filed July 8, 2016). The…
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Consumer Organizations Sue to Compel FDA Action on Perchlorate
Several consumer organizations, including the Center for Food Safety, Environmental Working Group and Natural Resources Defense Council, have filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit seeking a writ compelling the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to address the groups’ administrative petition filed in…
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EFSA Investigates Long-Term Dietary Exposure to Chlorate
The European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA’s) Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM Panel) has issued a scientific opinion assessing the health risks of acute and chronic dietary exposure to chlorate, “a byproduct when using chlorine, chlorine dioxide or hypochlorite for the disinfection of drinking water, water for food production and surfaces coming into contact…
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EPA Sets Meeting, Teleconference to Address MCLG for Perchlorate
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Science Advisory Board (SAB) has announced a July 18-19, 2012, public meeting of the SAB Perchlorate Advisory Panel and September 25 public teleconference to address a maximum contaminant level goal (MCLG) for the rocket fuel constituent perchlorate. Perchlorate contamination has been detected in samples of milk, drinking water and lettuce,…
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California Agency Changes Animal Cancer Conversion Calculation
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has issued a notice addressing its amendment to “the calculation used to convert estimates of animal cancer potencyto estimates of human cancer potency, which is used to calculate no significant risk levels for carcinogens listed under Proposition 65.” According to the notice, the amendment…
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EPA Adds Chemicals in Pesticides and Plastics to Endocrine Disruptor Screening List
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the addition of 134 chemicals to its second Tier 1 screening list under the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP). Among those chemicals listed are DBCP, 1,4-dioxane, acetaldehyde, acrolein, acrylamide, benzene, benzo(a)pyrene, chlordane, HCFC-22, perchlorate, PFOS, PFOA, and polychlorinated biphenyls. Comments are requested by December 17, 2010. According to…