NEW WHITE HOUSE RISK REVIEW REQUIREMENTS MAY SPUR DATA CHALLENGES

A proposed new White House risk assessment guidance may allow industry to challenge agency risk analyses under a 2001 data quality law because the document says its authority stems from that legislation, industry and environmental group sources say. Meanwhile, the document is also sparking considerable controversy because it is requiring agencies to demonstrate why changes caused by chemicals are "adverse," which may undermine a possible EPA effort to regulate chemically induced changes that cause the beginning stages of a disease,...