Now Available: Registration for upcoming IRIS Public Science Meeting (November 2021)
This original announcement was published by the EPA on September 30, 2021. Click here to register.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Health and Environmental Risk Assessment (HERA) National Research Program is announcing a virtual IRIS Public Science Meeting for November 9, 2021. The Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Program is convening the previously postponed IRIS Public Science Meeting to discuss the IRIS Assessment Plan associated with the unsuspended naphthalene assessment.
Should you wish to attend the meeting and/or provide oral public comment, register here. Program materials, including the assessment plan, can be found on the Public Science Meeting website. Interested stakeholders may view the public comment received on the naphthalene IAP by visiting Regulations.Gov (Docket no. EPA-HQ-ORD-2014-0527). While IRIS assessments are not associated with proposed rulemaking, Regulations.gov serves as both an internal portal to facilitate public comment and as a document repository for Federal government agencies.
Call for Nominations — Review of EPA’s 2021 Draft IRIS Formaldehyde Assessment
EPA’s HERA National Research Program is highlighting that an ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) will provide the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a review of EPA’s 2021 draft IRIS formaldehyde assessment. An ad hoc committee will assess whether the draft assessment adequately and transparently evaluated the scientific literature, used appropriate methods to synthesize the current state-of-the science, and presented conclusions regarding the hazard identification analysis and dose-response analysis of formaldehyde that are supported by the scientific evidence. The committee will not conduct its own hazard assessment of formaldehyde, nor will the committee address broader aspects of the IRIS Program.
Nominations for committee members and/or reviewers for this study are due by October 15, 2021. For more information regarding this peer review, visit the NAS website.
