EPA Reaches Settlement with Colgate-Palmolive to Bring it Into Compliance with Requirements for Large-Quantity Chemical Imports
NEW YORK – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reached a settlement with the Colgate-Palmolive Corporation to correct violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) Rule. This settlement resolves Colgate-Palmolive’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.”
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. 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. 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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