Status of Reforms to EPA's Integrated Risk Information System
Title | Status of Reforms to EPA's Integrated Risk Information System PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011). Subcommittee on Oversight |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 140 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Chemicals |
ISBN |
EPA Chemical Assessments: Process Reforms Offer the Potential to Address Key Problems
Title | EPA Chemical Assessments: Process Reforms Offer the Potential to Address Key Problems PDF eBook |
Author | John B. Stephenson |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | 13 |
Release | 2009-12 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1437917968 |
The EPA Integrated Risk Info. System (IRIS) contains EPA's scientific position on the potential human health effects of exposure to more than 540 chemicals. Toxicity assessments in the IRIS database constitute the first two critical steps of the risk assessment process. Thus, IRIS is a critical component of EPA's capacity to support scientifically sound environmental decisions, policies, and regulations. This testimony discusses: (1) the findings from a March 2008 report ¿Chemical Assessments: Low Productivity and New Interagency Review Process Limit the Usefulness and Credibility of EPA's Integrated Risk Info. System¿ and related testimonies; and (2) a preliminary evaluation of the revised IRIS assessment process EPA issued on May 21, 2009.
Progress Toward Transforming the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Program
Title | Progress Toward Transforming the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Program PDF eBook |
Author | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 130 |
Release | 2018-04-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0309474949 |
Over the past several years, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been transforming the procedures of its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), a program that produces hazard and doseâ€'response assessments of environmental chemicals and derives toxicity values that can be used to estimate risks posed by exposures to them. The transformation was initiated after suggestions for program reforms were provided in a 2011 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that reviewed a draft IRIS assessment of formaldehyde. In 2014, the National Academies released a report that reviewed the IRIS program and evaluated the changes implemented in it since the 2011 report. Since 2014, new leadership of EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) and IRIS program has instituted even more substantive changes in the IRIS program in response to the recommendations in the 2014 report. Progress Toward Transforming the Integrated Risk Information System Program: A 2018 Evaluation reviews the EPA's progress toward addressing the past recommendations from the National Academies.
Progress Toward Transforming the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Program
Title | Progress Toward Transforming the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Program PDF eBook |
Author | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Review Advances Made to the IRIS Process |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 119 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Chemicals |
ISBN |
"Over the past several years, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been transforming the procedures of its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), a program that produces hazard and dose‒response assessments of environmental chemicals and derives toxicity values that can be used to estimate risks posed by exposures to them. The transformation was initiated after suggestions for program reforms were provided in a 2011 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that reviewed a draft IRIS assessment of formaldehyde. In 2014, the National Academies released a report that reviewed the IRIS program and evaluated the changes implemented in it since the 2011 report. Since 2014, new leadership of EPA’s National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) and IRIS program has instituted even more substantive changes in the IRIS program in response to the recommendations in the 2014 report. Progress Toward Transforming the Integrated Risk Information System Program: A 2018 Evaluation reviews the EPA’s progress toward addressing the past recommendations from the National Academies" -- Publisher's description
Fixing EPA's Broken Integrated Risk Information System
Title | Fixing EPA's Broken Integrated Risk Information System PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007). Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Annual Report of Activities of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives for the ... Congress
Title | Annual Report of Activities of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives for the ... Congress PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011- ) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Science and state |
ISBN |
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2013
Title | Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2013 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 612 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |