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Check out all of our environmental safety courses now and learn how to manage these substances properly. A key result of the update is that less than half of the total number of chemicals on the current TSCA Inventory 47 percent or 40, of the 86, chemicals are currently in commerce. As the result of a tremendous effort on behalf of thousands of stakeholders and manufacturers from across the country, this information will help EPA focus risk evaluation efforts on chemicals that are still on the market.
This will help us with our work prioritizing chemicals, evaluating and addressing risks. As recently as , the TSCA Inventory showed over 86, chemicals available for commercial production and use in the U.
Until this update, it was not known which of these chemicals on the TSCA Inventory were actually in commerce. The Inventory contains 86, chemicals of which 41, are active. Both files are compressed ". See generic information about zip files. The following non-confidential data fields are provided for each confidential chemical substance:.
NOTE: A "Chemical Substance Definition" in the DF field provides important identification information for certain Class 2 substances having "Preferred CA Index Names" that are not specific or complete enough to permit unambiguous identification of the substance or the category to which it belongs.
Read our policy and guidance documents about Class 2 substances on the Inventory. Special characters are handled using the following conventions:. All fields pertaining to a particular chemical substance are grouped together into a single substance record. For ease of use with data management software, records are separated from each other by a carriage return and a newline.
The last eighth field ends with a carriage return and a newline instead of a tab. All field identifiers are present in a record even if some fields have no data. If there are no data, the field ID with colon is immediately followed by a tab unless it is the last field of the record, in which case the field ID with colon is immediately followed by a carriage return and newline.
As indicated above, the SN and FL fields can have multiple values of data. In such cases, each value is separated from the one following by a semicolon followed by a space. Skip to main content. Contact Us. For all files: users may need to adjust formatting, including column widths. Learn how the data is formatted to help you search You can perform basic searches or sort the information in different ways. You may be able to do different or more complex searches or sorts -- see your own software help system or your local computer support personnel for additional instructions.
Multiple Values Possible? Special characters are handled using the following conventions: Greek letters - name of letter within periods, e. The following flags are used: 5E - indicates a substance that is the subject of a TSCA section 5 e order.
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