EPA DRAWS DATA QUALITY CHALLENGE OVER KEY ENDOCRINE TESTING METHOD

摘要

An industry-funded watchdog group, in a just-filed Data Quality Act (DQA) petition, is asking EPA to correct its statements on the validity of a key test for evaluating whether pesticides and other chemicals are endocrine disrupting compounds. If the move is successful, one informed source says, it could call into question the agency's ability to proceed with its endocrine screening program, which Congress has ordered EPA to launch next month. The Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE) July 10 filed its petition with EPA over a frog assay that is a key component of EPA's upcoming endocrine disruptor screening program (EDSP), which is intended to narrow a list of chemicals that require additional testing to determine their endocrine disrupting effects.