EPA Seeks IRIS Peer Reviewers As Program Revs Up

EPA’s influential Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program is seeking nominees to peer review a half-dozen pending chemical assessments, including of chloroform and five perfluorinated chemicals, as it seeks to accelerate those and other projects following years of dormancy under the Trump administration. In a notice scheduled for publication in the Sept. 7 Federal Register , EPA asks for nominations of experts to peer review its pending draft IRIS assessment of chloroform, which will be limited to non-cancer human health...