The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to regulate how phthalate chemicals are used in work settings, a decision made after the agency completed its risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said in a Dec. 31 post on X.
Phthalates, used mainly as plasticizers in PVC products, are utilized in many industrial and consumer products.
According to a Make American Healthy Again (MAHA) commission report, research has shown that certain phthalates can “trigger hormone dysregulation and reproductive and developmental problems for babies in-utero and infants.”
In his post, Zeldin said the EPA conducted “the most comprehensive” assessment of phthalates. “We are now announcing that, following gold standard science, promoting radical transparency of the research and data, and to Make America Healthy Again, we will regulate dozens of phthalate chemical uses after finding unreasonable risks to workers and the environment.”…