High Production Volume (HPV) Challenge Program
A Good Idea
Description
High Production Volume (HPV) chemicals are those which are manufactured in, or imported into, the United States in amounts equal to or greater than one million pounds per year. The HPV Challenge Program, a collaborative partnership whose goal was to ensure that the American public had access to the type of information that would allow it to actively participate in environmental decisionmaking at all levels-federal, state, and local.
Goal / Mission
The HPV Challenge Program aims to ensure that a baseline set of health and environmental effects data on approximately 2800 high production volume chemicals is made available to EPA and the public.
Results / Accomplishments
Since the Program's inception in 1998, industry chemical manufacturers and importers have participated in the Program by sponsoring over 2,200 chemicals. Sponsorship involves a commitment to develop data summaries of relevant existing information and to conduct testing to fill any data gaps. This collection of screening-level hazard data will provide the public with basic information about the chemicals that are produced in the largest quantities.
About this Promising Practice
Organization(s)
US Environmental Protection Agency
Primary Contact
Diane Sheridan
US Environmental Protection Agency
P.O. Box 1473
Merrifield, VA 22116
Attention: Chemical Right-to-Know Program
(202) 564-8176
sheridan.diane@epa.gov
http://www.epa.gov/HPV/
US Environmental Protection Agency
P.O. Box 1473
Merrifield, VA 22116
Attention: Chemical Right-to-Know Program
(202) 564-8176
sheridan.diane@epa.gov
http://www.epa.gov/HPV/
Topics
Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants
Organization(s)
US Environmental Protection Agency
Date of publication
2006
Date of implementation
1998
Location
USA