OMB Renews Information Collection For Human Pesticides Research

The White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) has renewed an EPA request to collect information about how third parties conduct pesticide tests using human subjects, a move that will allow the agency to continue to collect the data even as it moves to settle litigation over its rule governing human testing. According to a Sept. 9 notice in the Federal Register , OMB approved without change on Aug. 18 the information collection request (ICR) for "Submission of Protocols...