Former EPA Staff Tout ‘Probabilistic’ Risk Methods, Echoing TSCA Comments

Former EPA staff are urging the agency to apply newer “probabilistic” methods for developing quantitative risk estimates for non-cancer risks in its regulatory analyses, echoing arguments recently raised by scientists and others in comments on the TSCA program’s latest risk-management proposal. Dan Axelrad, an independent consultant retired from EPA’s policy office, said during an Oct. 8 panel discussion that “incorporation of the [probabilistic] methods into EPA hazard and dose-response analyses is really unfortunately lagging behind the development of the approaches...