环保署与高露洁棕榄达成和解：47种进口化学品未按时申报、付93万美元罚款
美国环境保护署（EPA）11月4日在 New York 宣布，已与高露洁棕榄公司（Colgate-Palmolive）达成和解，纠正其违反《有毒物质控制法》（TSCA）化学数据报告规则的行为。和解解决的是该公司未申报2016年至2019年间进口的多种化学物质一事；该公司已证明自身符合报告要求，并支付了93万美元罚款。
EPA 第二区区长 Michael Martucci 表示：「EPA 的数据报告要求对保护人类健康和环境至关重要。这项和解是 EPA 与企业合作实现合规、同时确保民众获得所在社区化学品所需信息的一个很好的例子。」
据 EPA 通报，2023年3月，EPA 对高露洁棕榄位于新泽西州的一处设施进行检查时发现，该公司未能在2021年1月的截止日期前，为2016年至2019年间发生的进口提交所需的化学数据。在 EPA 协助下，该公司于2023年7月补报了化学数据。数据显示，高露洁棕榄曾进口47种数量超过申报门槛的化学品，却未按期履行申报义务。EPA 随后与该公司合作，使其恢复合规并达成法律和解。
EPA 说明，列入 TSCA 化学物质清单的大量化学物质的制造商和进口商，须每四年报告一次化学品制造、加工和使用数据。EPA 利用化学数据报告数据评估这些化学品对人类健康和环境的潜在影响；各州、部落、其他机构和公众也可使用这些数据了解商业流通中的化学品。
EPA Reaches Settlement With Colgate-Palmolive: 47 Imported Chemicals Went Unreported, $930,000 Penalty Paid
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in New York on November 4 that it has reached a settlement with the Colgate-Palmolive Corporation to correct violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) Rule. The settlement resolves the company's failures to report numerous chemical substances imported between 2016 and 2019. The company has certified compliance with the reporting requirements and paid a $930,000 penalty.
"EPA's data-reporting requirements are essential to protecting human health and the environment," said EPA Region 2 Administrator Michael Martucci. "This settlement is a great example of EPA working with a business to achieve compliance while ensuring that people have the information they need about chemicals in their communities."
According to the EPA, in March 2023, an EPA inspection of Colgate-Palmolive's New Jersey facility revealed that the company had failed to report required chemical data for imports that occurred from 2016 through 2019 by the January 2021 deadline. With EPA's assistance, it reported its chemical data in July 2023. The data showed that Colgate had imported 47 chemicals in quantities greater than the reporting threshold and that the company had failed to meet its obligation to file a report by the deadline. The EPA worked with the company to bring it into compliance with the requirements and enter into a legal settlement.
Manufacturers and importers of large quantities of chemical substances listed on the TSCA Chemical Substance Inventory are required to report data on chemical manufacturing, processing, and use every four years. The EPA uses CDR data to help assess the potential human health and environmental impacts of these chemicals. States, tribes, other agencies, and the public also can use CDR data to understand chemicals in commerce.
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