EPA Seeks White House Approval Of Interagency Microbial Risk Guide

EPA has sent for White House review a notice on a key, years-long effort by EPA and other agencies trying to jointly draft microbial risk assessment (MRA) guidelines that EPA says would provide a flexible framework for conducting MRAs that could be applied by different agencies for setting regulatory policies under various statutes. EPA would use the MRAs, when finalized, to assess human health risks associated with, for example, microbial pesticides regulated under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide Act,...