Title Progress toward transforming the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program : a 2018 evaluation / Committee to Review Advances Made to the IRIS Process, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies

Published Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 119 pages) : color illustrations Series A consensus study report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Consensus study report. Contents Summary -- Introduction -- Responses to National Academies recommendations -- Appendixes -- Boxes and Figure Summary "Over the past several years, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been transforming the procedures of its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), a program that produces hazard and dose-response assessments of environmental chemicals and derives toxicity values that can be used to estimate risks posed by exposures to them. The transformation was initiated after suggestions for program reforms were provided in a 2011 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that reviewed a draft IRIS assessment of formaldehyde. In 2014, the National Academies released a report that reviewed the IRIS program and evaluated the changes implemented in it since the 2011 report. Since 2014, new leadership of EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) and IRIS program has instituted even more substantive changes in the IRIS program in response to the recommendations in the 2014 report. Progress Toward Transforming the Integrated Risk Information System Program: A 2018 Evaluation reviews the EPA's progress toward addressing the past recommendations from the National Academies"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (National Academies Press, viewed April 23, 2018) Subject IRIS (Information retrieval system) Chemicals -- Risk assessment -- Government policy -- United States Health risk assessment -- Government policy -- United States Environmental risk assessment -- Government policy -- United States Environmental risk assessment -- Government policy Health risk assessment -- Government policy IRIS (Information retrieval system) United States Form Electronic book Author Progress Toward Transforming the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Program (Workshop) (2018 : Washington, D.C.) author

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