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IRIS Assessment Plan for Inorganic Mercury Salts (Scoping and Problem Formulation Materials)
EPA announces the availability of the IRIS Assessment Plan for Inorganic Mercury Salts (Scoping and Problem Formulation Materials) for a 30-day public comment period. EPA also announces a public science meeting (via webinar) scheduled for December 5, 2019. Deadline for comments is Nov 7, 2019. [FR Notice Oct 8, 2019]
Citation:
U.S. EPA. IRIS Assessment Plan for Inorganic Mercury Salts (Scoping and Problem Formulation Materials). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/635/R-19/149, 2019.
Impact/Purpose:
This document presents a draft assessment plan for inorganic mercury salts that will be the subject of a peer review meeting in 2020 and that will define the scope and approach of the IRIS assessment for inorganic mercury salts.
Description:
In October 2019, EPA released the draft IRIS Assessment Plan (IAP) for Inorganic Mercury Salts for public review and comment. An IRIS Assessment Plan (IAP) communicates to the public the plan for assessing each individual chemical and includes summary information on the IRIS Program’s scoping and initial problem formulation; objectives and specific aims for the assessment; the PECO (Populations, Exposures, Comparators, and Outcomes) criteria that outlines the evidence considered most pertinent to the assessment; and identification of key areas of scientific complexity. The PECO provides the framework for developing literature search strategies and inclusion/exclusion criteria, particularly with respect to evidence stream (i.e., human, animal, mechanistic), exposure and outcome measures. The IAP serves to inform the subsequent development of the chemical specific systematic review protocol.
URLs/Downloads:
IRIS Assessment Plan for Inorganic Mercury Salts (Scoping and Problem Formulation Materials), Sep 2019 (PDF, 39 pp, 1517 KB, about PDF)Errata Sheet (page 8) (PDF, 1 pp, 95 KB, about PDF)
EPA-HQ-ORD-2019-0504
Literature Search References Sorted By Author (Mercury Salts, Inorganic)
FR Notice: Oct 8, 2019