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Table 4 Decision context – policy & practice

From: Advancing the science on chemical classes

Scope of Authority

Visionary

Constrained

• Progressive business model

• Chemical prioritization for assessment, replacement, or elimination

• Health-protective new laws with flexibility to adapt to scientific advances

• Updated regulations

• Laws and regulations which require or allow classes

• Laws and regulations which don’t exclude classes

• Rigid statutory and regulatory language with specific definitions of what may be included in a class