New EPA Advisory Panel Praises Solvent Review But Urges Biomarker Use

A new EPA advisory panel dedicated to peer reviewing risk assessments from the agency's toxics office has issued its first review, generally praising EPA's draft analysis of a common solvent but urging consideration of biomarker data that suggests widespread exposure to the chemical and could increase estimates of bystander exposures. Official minutes dated Aug. 22 from the Chemical Safety Advisory Committee's (CSAC) review meeting of EPA's draft assessment of the solvent 1-bromopropane (1-BP) found overall that EPA “had developed a...