On Feb 14, 2022, at 10:14 AM, Monona Rossol <0000030664c37427-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU> wrote:Has anyone read over this reg? I don't have time. But the same kind of regulation was proposed in the 1980s and the manufacturers of on art conservation product just switched to pentachlorophenol laureate and keep selling it. Is this reg going to apply to pentachlorophenol's many siblings?--- For more information about the DCHAS-L e-mail list, contact the Divisional membership chair at membership**At_Symbol_Here**dchas.org Follow us on Twitter **At_Symbol_Here**acsdchas
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EPA AXES PENTACHLOROPHENOL WOOD PRESERVATIVE
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Companies can produce, distribute, and sell the wood preservative pentachlorophenol in the US for only 2 more years, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced Feb. 4. Wood treatment facilities, however, have until 2027 to use up their existing stocks of the chemical. The National Toxicology Program lists pentachlorophenol as a "reasonably anticipated" human carcinogen. It is banned under the United Nations' Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, an international treaty the US signed but has not ratified. The EPA claims that pentachlorophenol poses health risks to workers. Alternative wood preservatives-including chromated arsenicals, copper naphthenate, creosote, and dichloro-octyl-isothiazolinone-are available, the EPA says. Environmental groups have been urging the EPA for decades to ban pentachlorophenol. The chemical is persistent in the environment and contaminates about 250 Superfund hazardous waste sites where it was made, according to!
the advocacy group Beyond Pesticides.
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