EPA Plans New Peer Review To Address Industry Concerns Over IRIS

摘要

EPA officials say they are adding an additional peer review step at the start of its process for crafting its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) chemical risk assessments — the latest in a series of new measures the agency is taking to improve its IRIS program and one long sought by industry before the agency's draft assessments are issued for review. "We're ... adding an early peer consultation step for some assessments before a draft [IRIS assessment] is written so we can have a fuller discussion" of the science, Becki Clark, acting director of EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment, which oversees the IRIS program, told the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Board on Environmental and Toxicological Studies (BEST) Jan.