EPA Draft (IRIS) Ammonia Assessment Available for Public Comment
Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS): Today, EPA released for a 60-day public comment period the draft IRIS assessment for ammonia. Excerpts from the agency’s press release are provided below, and a copy of the draft assessment is avaialble here. IRIS is a human health assessment program that evaluates information on health effects that may result […]
EPA Budget Would Increase Spending on Chemical Assessment and Control
EPA Budget/Chemical Control According to an EPA press release, today the Obama Administration proposed a FY 2013 budget of $8.344 billion for the agency. The budget is $105 million below the EPA’s enacted level for FY 2012, but it increases spending by $11 million, or approximately 16%, to “protect … Americans from harmful chemicals.” This increase for chemical […]
EPA Awards Contracts to U.S. Companies to Screen Chemicals for Human Health Impacts
Chemical Screening: EPA continues in its laudable quest to screen thousands of chemicals. See press release below. +++++++++++ EPA Awards Contracts to U.S. Companies to Screen Chemicals for Human Health Impacts WASHINGTON— The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ToxCast chemical screening program has awarded contracts to four United States-based companies to test up to 10,000 […]
EPA's Chemical Screening Gets a Big Boost – From a Robot!
Chemical Screening: On March 10, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially launched a robust new tool for screening chemicals for health and environmental hazards. It’s a robot called the Tox21 Robotic Testing System, or “ToRTS” for readers preferring acronyms. Robots have been used previously for chemical testing, but ToRTs appears to be one of the […]