Cumulative risk assessment The agency seeks comment on three facets: Cumulative risk assessment principles, approach for risk assessment of phthalates, and a slate of candidates for an advisory panel guiding the process. Focusing on the proposed principles of cumulative risk assessment, the document describes: Priority populations Types of stressors Route of exposures How cumulative chemical groups will be defined for assessment. Prioritize real-world exposures The second structural flaw is how EPA prioritizes chemical groups for assessment. This reduces the likelihood of industrial companies clogging the assessment pipeline with chemical groups that we would likely never see. The EPA must update its Proposed Principles of Cumulative Risk Assessment Under the Toxic Substances Control Act to include animals and prioritize co-exposures for cumulative risk.

Source: The Guardian April 24, 2023 10:12 UTC