{"id":83,"date":"2009-06-19T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/nanotechnology\/2009\/06\/19\/epa-announcement-on-champ\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:00:45","slug":"epa-announcement-on-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2009\/06\/19\/epa-announcement-on-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA announcement on ChAMP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Denison, Ph.D.<\/em>, is a Senior Scientist.<\/em><\/p>\n

It probably goes without saying that EDF welcomes EPA’s decision to suspend the development and posting of risk-based prioritizations under its Chemical Assessment and Mangement Program (ChAMP).\u00a0 EDF has been arguing (see our earlier posts<\/a>) that ChAMP’s “rush to risk”\u00a0has taken EPA badly off-track.\u00a0 But we have also identified many useful things that EPA’s existing chemicals program can and should be doing with the data it obtained through the HPV Challenge (whether called ChAMP or not) .<\/p>\n

We look forward to working with EPA to craft a new approach, grounded in a return to developing scientifically defensible\u00a0hazard, not risk, characterizations and transparently identifying and addressing data gaps and data quality problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. It probably goes without saying that EDF welcomes EPA’s decision to suspend the development and posting of risk-based prioritizations under its Chemical Assessment and Mangement Program (ChAMP).\u00a0 EDF has been arguing (see our earlier posts) that ChAMP’s “rush to risk”\u00a0has taken EPA badly off-track.\u00a0 But we have also …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,44,56096],"tags":[39194,39153,68,39151,39193,5017],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epa","category-policy","category-omboira","tag-chemical-assessment-and-management-program-champ","tag-data-requirements","tag-epa","tag-high-production-volume-hpv","tag-prioritization","tag-risk-assessment"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t