Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 4.10.2007

Draft Scientific and Ethical Approaches for Observational Exposure Studies

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) announces a 45-day public comment period for the draft document titled, "Scientific and Ethical Approaches for Observational Exposure Studies." This public comment period will overlap an external peer review of the draft document by EPA's Human Studies Review Board (HSRB) and discussion at their meeting on October 24, 2007. Notice of the HSRB meeting was published in the Federal Register on September 27, 2007, at 72 FR 54908 (Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0942) and is posted on the EPA HSRB Web site, http://www.epa.gov/osa/ hsrb/. The draft document presents "state-of-the-science" approaches for conducting observational exposure studies based on sound science and conforming to the highest ethical standards. These studies, which collect information on how people come into contact with chemicals as they go about their everyday activities, are critical to EPA's mission to protect human health. This document is intended to serve as a resource and reference for researchers and is not meant to represent an official Agency "guidance document." EPA is releasing this draft document solely for the purpose of pre- dissemination peer review u