EPA Draft Pesticide Risk Screening Plan Avoids NAS Call For Prioritization

EPA's just-released draft cumulative risk assessment framework for screening pesticides maintains the agency's past approach of grouping substances based on their similarities, avoiding a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) call to shift to a prioritization scheme based on chemicals' health outcomes, according to a former EPA official. “The document continues an approach along the line with” the agency's prior cumulative assessments used in assessing the risks from pesticides as part of their registrations, including of the organophosphate and carbamate groups...