EPA's Chloroform Study Plan Raises Queries Over Reach Of IRIS Reviews

EPA is facing broad criticisms over the data review protocol for its recently launched update to its assessment of chloroform's health risks, one of three new assessments that new Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) leaders launched last fall as part of efforts to shift the program's paradigm. In recent comments on its assessment plan, a trio of stakeholders, including public health researchers, the chemical industry and the Defense Department, raise a variety of questions regarding the new IRIS leaders' plans...