EPA's Science Advisory Board.(Brief Article)

Public Works, October, 2001

Meanwhile, EPA's Science Advisory Board has urged the agency to modify its analysis of the benefits of lowering the arsenic standard for drinking water. The board's arsenic review panel issued a report noting the importance of considering the length of time from when arsenic levels are lowered to when the associated health-risk reductions are achieved. The board faulted EPA for assuming that avoided cancer cases would be realized immediately upon implementing a lower standard.

It also strengthened language urging EPA to quantify health risks other than cancer, especially heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus, as well as language recommending that the agency not evaluate reduction or elimination of exposure as a separate benefits category because...

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