The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), a program assessing the toxicity of chemicals and any risk from exposure to them, often produces assessments ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Program undertakes assessments of exposures to various chemicals in order to determine corresponding health ...

Chemical regulations exist to safeguard human and environmental health throughout a substance’s life cycle (manufacture, intended use phase, and disposal). Regulatory decisions require scientific ...

The agency is preparing to release several important documents to help industrial hygienists assess and control risks more effectively, a NIOSH division chief explained May 20. May 20, 2019 ...

Objective: To provide a hazard prioritisation for reported chemical constituents of cigarette smoke using toxicological risk assessment principles and assumptions. The purpose is to inform prevention ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program identifies and regulates high-risk chemical facilities to ensure that security measures are in ...

Companies making and using chemicals to produce goods are backing the EPA’s deregulatory proposal to reverse Biden-era ...

The Environmental Protection Agency won’t be hiring a scientist with strong ties to industry to run its chemical assessment program. As the Center for Public Integrity reported in December, one of two ...

A campaign group supported by three chemical manufacturers is questioning whether politicians should ban hazardous substances on the basis of the precautionary principle in the face of scientific ...

Jena Baker McNeill is a homeland security policy analyst. This week, the U.S. House of Representatives will consider the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act. This legislation would reauthorize and ...