SAB Eases Arsenic Analysis’ Skin Cancer Advice To Allay IRIS’ Concern

July 30, 2024
Science advisors charged with peer-reviewing EPA’s draft Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) assessment of inorganic arsenic have agreed to ease one of their draft recommendations that had called for the agency to conduct new modeling on skin cancer risk to address concerns that doing so would substantially delay the assessment’s publication. During a July 16 virtual meeting, members of EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) panel peer-reviewing the agency’s long-running effort to revise its inorganic arsenic assessment agreed with calls from...


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