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EPA Expects ‘Year-Ish’ Wait For Peer Review Of IRIS Formaldehyde Draft

July 13, 2022
A top EPA official says the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will take “a year-ish” to complete its peer review report on the draft Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) assessment of formaldehyde, further delaying release of a final assessment and narrowing the window even more for including it in a TSCA evaluation of the chemical. Speaking at a July 13 session of the Toxicology Forum’s summer meeting in Arlington, VA, EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)’s Chemical and Pollutant...


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