Controls Needed for Solvent, Chemical Byproduct, EPA Says

Companies’ use of a solvent to produce other substances and its unintentional formation through common household and commercial products will have to be restricted because the chemical could harm workers and the general public, the EPA has concluded.

Drinking water rules are among the actions the Environmental Protection Agency will consider to manage the solvent, 1,4-dioxane, the EPA said in a Federal Register notice that officially will be published—along with the full risk evaluation—on Thursday.

The EPA’s revised, final evaluation of 1,4-dioxane’s environmental and health risks concluded it poses an “unreasonable risk” of injuring people through cancer, liver ...

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