Health Assessment Document for Inorganic Arsenic

Health Assessment Document for Inorganic Arsenic
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Health and Environmental Assessment
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1984
Genre: Arsenic compounds
ISBN:

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Health Assessment Document for Inorganic Arsenic

Health Assessment Document for Inorganic Arsenic
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 295
Release: 1984
Genre: Arsenic
ISBN:

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Arsenic in Drinking Water

Arsenic in Drinking Water
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2001-12-26
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0309076293

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Having safe drinking water is important to all Americans. The Environmental Protection Agency's decision in the summer of 2001 to delay implementing a new, more stringent standard for the maximum allowable level for arsenic in drinking water generated a great deal of criticism and controversy. Ultimately at issue were newer data on arsenic beyond those that had been examined in a 1999 National Research Council report. EPA asked the National Research Council for an evaluation of the new data available. The committee's analyses and conclusions are presented in Arsenic in Drinking Water: 2001 Update. New epidemiological studies are critically evaluated, as are new experimental data that provide information on how and at what level arsenic in drinking water can lead to cancer. The report's findings are consistent with those of the 1999 report that found high risks of cancer at the previous federal standard of 50 parts per billion. In fact, the new report concludes that men and women who consume water containing 3 parts per billion of arsenic daily have about a 1 in 1,000 increased risk of developing bladder or lung cancer during their lifetime.

Critical Aspects of EPA's IRIS Assessment of Inorganic Arsenic

Critical Aspects of EPA's IRIS Assessment of Inorganic Arsenic
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2013-11-20
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0309297095

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program develops toxicologic assessments of environmental contaminants. IRIS assessments provide hazard identification and dose-response assessment information. The information is then used in conjunction with exposure information to characterize risks to public health and may be used in risk-based decisionmaking, in regulatory actions, and for other risk-management purposes. Since the middle 1990s, EPA has been in the process of updating the IRIS assessment of inorganic arsenic. In response to a congressional mandate for an independent review of the IRIS assessment of inorganic arsenic, EPA requested that the National Research Council convene a committee to conduct a two-phase study. Critical Aspects of EPA's IRIS Assessment of Inorganic Arsenic is the report of the first phase of that study. This report evaluates critical scientific issues in assessing cancer and noncancer effects of oral exposure to inorganic arsenic and offers recommendations on how the issues could be addressed in EPA's IRIS assessment.

Review of EPA's Updated Problem Formulation and Protocol for the Inorganic Arsenic IRIS Assessment

Review of EPA's Updated Problem Formulation and Protocol for the Inorganic Arsenic IRIS Assessment
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2019-10-31
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0309497027

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The Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) is a program within the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that is responsible for developing toxicologic assessments of environmental contaminants. An IRIS assessment contains hazard identifications and dose-response assessments of various chemicals related to cancer and noncancer outcomes. Although the program was created to increase consistency among toxicologic assessments within the agency, federal, state, and international agencies and other organizations have come to rely on IRIS assessments for setting regulatory standards, establishing exposure guidelines, and estimating risks to exposed populations. The EPA has been working on its IRIS assessment of inorganic arsenic (iAs) for many years, and recently released its plans for completing it in the Updated Problem Formulation and Protocol for the Inorganic Arsenic IRIS Assessment. Much of the update was made in response to recommendations in a 2013 report made by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The National Academies recently convened another evaluation of whether the various elements of the IRIS iAs assessment plan are appropriate to synthesize the scientific evidence and quantitate estimates of iAs toxicity. Review of EPA's IRIS Assessment Plan for Inorganic Arsenic explores the EPA's approach to prioritizing health outcomes, EPA's systematic review methods, EPA's consideration of potential health effects from early life exposures, mode-of-action information to inform dose-response analyses, and various approaches to investigate dose-response relationships.