{"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":"<p><em>Richard Denison, Ph.D.<\/em><em>, is a Senior Scientist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It probably goes without saying that EDF welcomes EPA&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/nanotechnology\/category\/champ\/\">earlier posts<\/a>) that ChAMP&#8217;s &#8220;rush to risk&#8221;\u00a0has taken EPA badly off-track.\u00a0 But we have also identified many useful things that EPA&#8217;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<p>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":"<p>Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. It probably goes without saying that EDF welcomes EPA&#8217;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&#8217;s &#8220;rush to risk&#8221;\u00a0has taken EPA badly off-track.\u00a0 But we have also &#8230;<\/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":[44,56096],"tags":[39194,39153,68,39151,39193,5017],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12537,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/12537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}