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Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976: History, Measurement, Companies & Products

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is a United States law, passed by the Congress in 1976 and administered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that regulates chemicals not regulated by other U.S. federal statutes, including chemicals already in commerce and the introduction of new chemicals. When the TSCA was put into place…

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Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Measurement, Companies and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976.

Related topics: 81
Source areas: 10
Connected nodes: 91
Extracted relationships: 54
Concept neighborhoods: 38
Bridge connections: 91

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Overview · 25 topics

Reform bills · 20 topics

History · 12 topics

Comparison with EU chemical regulation · 7 topics

Criticism · 6 topics

Chemical Substance Inventory (TSCA Inventory) · 5 topics

TSCA and environmental justice · 3 topics

Example of chemical inventories in various countries and regions · 1 topics

Regulation of existing chemicals · 1 topics

Testing · 1 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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Acronyms .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(colloquial): TSCA
Effective: October 11, 1976
Enacted by: the 94th United States Congress
Long title: An Act to regulate commerce and protect human health and the environment by requiring testing and necessary use restrictions on certain chemical substances, and for other purposes.
Public law: 94-469
Statutes at Large: 90 Stat. 2003

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Overview

Congress United States Congress
Environmental Protection Agency United States Environmental Protection Agency
Chemicals Chemical
PCBs Polychlorinated biphenyl
Radon
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act
Clean Air Act Clean Air Act (United States)
Clean Water Act
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Methylene chloride
Title 15 of the United States Code
Asbestos
Lead
General Electric
Hudson River
Lead poisoning
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Food and Drug Administration
Occupational Safety & Health Administration
European Chemical Agency

History

Regulation of existing chemicals

Natural Resources Defense Council

Chemical Substance Inventory (TSCA Inventory)

Microsoft Access
CSV Comma-separated values
ZIP files ZIP (file format)
Web application
Toxics Release Inventory

Testing

Catch-22 Catch-22 (logic)

Criticism

TSCA and environmental justice

Comparison with EU chemical regulation

European Union
Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals
European Chemicals Agency
Bioaccumulation
REACH Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals
European Commission
Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic substances

Example of chemical inventories in various countries and regions

TSCA Inventory TSCA Inventory?action=edit&redlink=1

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How Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 connects Entity context

The extracted context around Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 → Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, EPA, Existing, Federal Insecticide, FIFRA, For, Fungicide, Instead, Inventory, Recovery Act, Resource Conservation, Rodenticide Act, The, The Inventory, The Toxic Substances Control, This, TSCA, TSCA Inventory Another extracted example is Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 → TSCA. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976

Top relations

related to overview · 21

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 → Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, EPA, Existing, Federal Insecticide, FIFRA, For, Fungicide, Instead, Inventory, Recovery Act, Resource Conservation, Rodenticide Act, The, The Inventory, The Toxic Substances Control, This, TSCA, TSCA Inventory

Acronyms .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(colloquial) · 1

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 → TSCA

Effective · 1

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 → October 11, 1976

Enacted by · 1

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 → the 94th United States Congress

Long title · 1

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 → An Act to regulate commerce and protect human health and the environment by requiring testing and necessary use restrictions on certain chemical substances, and for other purposes.

Public law · 1

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 → 94-469

Statutes at Large · 1

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 → 90 Stat. 2003

Titles amended · 1

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 → 15 U.S.C.: Commerce and Trade

U.S.C. sections created · 1

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 → 15 U.S.C. ch. 53, subch. I §§ 2601–2629

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Important terminology

chemicals chemical tsca epa health new information toxic act existing environmental substances risk environment data exposure public safety products reach

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 54 structured relationships around Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. Examples in this analysis include Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 → Acronyms .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(colloquial) → TSCA and Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 → Effective → October 11, 1976. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976	Acronyms .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(colloquial)	TSCA	1.00	infobox
Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976	Effective	October 11, 1976	1.00	infobox
Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976	Enacted by	the 94th United States Congress	1.00	infobox
Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976	Long title	An Act to regulate commerce and protect human health and the environment by requiring testing and necessary use restrictions on certain chemical substances, and for other purposes.	1.00	infobox
Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976	Public law	94-469	1.00	infobox
Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976	Statutes at Large	90 Stat. 2003	1.00	infobox
Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976	Titles amended	15 U.S.C.: Commerce and Trade	1.00	infobox
Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976	U.S.C. sections created	15 U.S.C. ch. 53, subch. I §§ 2601–2629	1.00	infobox
the upper Hudson River	instance of	General Electric company and other firms for remediation of sites contaminated with PCBs	0.80	text
Beilstein	instance of	data on the subject chemical retrieved from public databases or reference material	0.80	text
California	instance of	In states	0.80	text
Connecticut	instance of	In states	0.80	text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Toxic, Chemicals and Control. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976
- Toxic
- Chemicals
- Control
- Substances
- Inventory
- Including
- Exposure
- Act
- Tsca
- Substance
- Environmental
- Health
toxic substances control act of 1976
- Toxic
- Safety
- Chemicals
- Control
- Substances
- Inventory
- Including
- Federal
- Chemical
- Act
- Exposure
- States
environmental protection agency
- Health
- Public
- Toxic
- Epa
- Information
- New
- State
- Industry
- Chemicals
- Chemical
- Tsca
- Data
chemicals
- Tsca
- Health
- New
- Epa
- Existing
- Toxic
- Chemical
- Environment
- Information
- Data
- Exposure
- Risk
federal food, drug, and cosmetic act
- Safety
- Federal
- Chemical
- Control
- Substances
- State
- Epa
- Toxic
- Tsca
- New
- Including
- Use
federal insecticide, fungicide, and rodenticide act
- Safety
- Federal
- Chemical
- Control
- Substances
- State
- Epa
- Toxic
- Tsca
- New
- Including
- Use
frank r. lautenberg chemical safety for the 21st century act
- Safety
- Tsca
- Health
- Chemicals
- Epa
- New
- Public
- Federal
- Chemical
- Information
- Control
- State
clean air act
- Safety
- Federal
- Chemical
- Control
- Substances
- Epa
- Toxic
- Tsca
- New
- Including
- Use
- States

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 — Overview · splits 66 ⟂ 26

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 — Reform bills · splits 71 ⟂ 21

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 — History · splits 79 ⟂ 13

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 — Comparison with EU chemical regulation · splits 84 ⟂ 8

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 — Criticism · splits 85 ⟂ 7

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 — Chemical Substance Inventory (TSCA Inventory) · splits 86 ⟂ 6

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 — TSCA and environmental justice · splits 88 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976

Nodes92

Edges91

Triples54

Avg. degree1.98

Density0.021739

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Measurement, Companies & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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