Human Health Assessment Articles & Analysis
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) posted a new publication in its Series on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials, Preliminary Guidance Notes on Nanomaterials: Interspecies Variability Factors in Human Health Risk Assessment. The report includes the following recommendations for further work: The Expert ...
By leveraging electronic reporting and working to reduce redundant paperwork and regulatory reporting burdens on business and our governmental partners, EPA will contribute to improving environmental and human health protection. Next Generation Compliance complements the agency’s E-Enterprise initiative. ...
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that it is requesting public nominations of scientific experts for appointment to EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee. The primary purpose of this new committee is to review chemical assessments. ...
IRIS is a human health assessment program that evaluates the latest science on chemicals in our environment. The final assessment characterizes the chemical as carcinogenic to humans and as a human noncancer health hazard. ...
Adding this information to data on the rate and severity of childhood asthma in these neighborhoods, researchers will examine how and why these social stressors impact childhood asthma and develop ways to educate communities on this issue and ways to improve children’s overall health. The study is part of an $8 million EPA grant awarded earlier this year through the ...
In the recent fervor to quantify the impact of biofuels on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, the other public health benefits of ethanol have often been overlooked. In ongoing research at the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), researchers are finding that “a biofuel eliminating even 10-percent of current gasoline pollutant emissions would have a substantial impact on ...
“EPA is stepping up our commitment to this site, in partnership with the state of Michigan, so that we can accelerate this cleanup and deal with the pressing threats to human health and the environment,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. ...