Despite IRIS Improvements, Industry Looks For More Substantive Changes

January 2, 2015
Regulated entities are continuing to press EPA to make substantive changes to its influential toxicity assessment program, especially in how program staff performs assessments, even while praising wide-ranging changes that the program's director, Ken Olden, has made since he took over the program in 2012. Olden's approach to leading the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) has garnered him many plaudits from long-standing IRIS critics over the past two years. But regulated entities and non-governmental organizations continue to push Olden and...


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