Arsenic Pesticide Producers Question EPA Approach For IRIS Assessment

Producers of arsenic pesticides and others who work with the element are raising concerns with the pace and opacity of EPA's ongoing efforts to draft an assessment of the human health risks of arsenic, as well as questioning new methods for gathering studies to review and include in the assessment, which they say is missing important research. The new draft assessment, part of a long-running effort to update the agency's 1998 Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) assessment of inorganic arsenic,...