Groups Press EPA To Focus Formaldehyde Risk Assessment On Leukemia

Environmentalists are pushing EPA to tighten its new draft risk assessment of formaldehyde by setting a cancer estimate based at least in part on the ubiquitous chemical’s links to leukemia, rejecting agency arguments that while such a link exists, the studies establishing it are too uncertain to use in an Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) review. EPA’s long-awaited IRIS draft on formaldehyde agrees with a controversial study that exposure to the chemical can cause myeloid leukemia but does not use...