EPA PERC Draft A "Dog's Breakfast"
HSIA representatives expressed "extreme disappointment" in the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) draft toxicity assessment for perchloroethylene at a ‘listening session’ held by the Agency in mid August. The assessment "seems to take at face value studies that show an association between perchloroethylene and adverse effects and to disregard studies that show no such effects," according to HSIA Counsel W. Caffey Norman.

Labor Dept Proposes New Risk Framework
The US Department of Labor (DOL) recently issued a proposal to consolidate and update the Department’s risk assessment procedures to be used by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in assessing health effects that underlie future standards for occupational exposure to hazardous chemicals.