EPA Faces Growing Push To Revise Risk Process Following NAS Report

摘要

Senate Republicans are joining chemical industry officials in calling for EPA to revise its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program, the agency's influential chemical risk assessment process, as recommended by a recent National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel report that faulted the agency's draft formaldehyde assessment. In a May 10 letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Sens. James Inhofe (R-OK) and David Vitter (R-LA) call on EPA to indicate how the agency will adopt changes to both its draft IRIS assessment of formaldehyde and the overall IRIS process recommended in NAS' review of the draft formaldehyde assessment.