05.19.22
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) is urging congressional leaders to ensure that the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) receives the funding necessary to aid in the production of new cleaning products.
The push comes as Congress works on its 2023 budget for the EPA. The letter coincided with the Energy and Commerce Committee’s May 17 hearing on EPA’s fiscal year budget request.
In the letter to Chairman Pallone and Ranking Member McMorris Rodgers from Kathleen Stanton, associate vice president, technical and international affairs, on behalf of the ACI, the nonprofit urged Congress to prioritize the needs of the OCSPP and provide that office with the funding to “sustain the robust activity required to ensure speed to market of important cleaning product chemistries.”
“ACI member companies are committed to ensuring that the public can access cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting products—products that are essential for public health, and that proved critical to combating Covid-19,” the letter stated. “Furthermore, industry is constantly innovating, developing new chemical components, and formulated products that promote safer use, greater effectiveness and sustainability. To do this, EPA must have the ability to perform the required regulatory reviews on ingredients and product labels and issue such approvals in a timely fashion.”