SAN DIEGO - On October 3, Fed-OSHA notified the Halogenated Solvents Industry Alliance (HSIA) that it had agreed to extend the deadline for compliance with the new workplace limits for methylene chloride (MC) by an additional 45 days. Companies will not have to comply with the new exposure limits or implement medical surveillance programs until about December 21, at the earliest.Lawyers for the HSIA began their challenge of the new standard last January, as soon as it was published. Their litigatio
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