{"id":124166,"date":"2021-06-23T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/epa-to-review-part-of-cancer-linked-chemical-regulation-after-industry-request"},"modified":"2021-06-23T09:23:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:23:16","slug":"epa-to-review-part-of-cancer-linked-chemical-regulation-after-industry-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/epa-to-review-part-of-cancer-linked-chemical-regulation-after-industry-request","title":{"rendered":"EPA to review part of cancer-linked chemical regulation after industry request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/epa-to-review-part-of-cancer-linked-chemical-regulation-after-industry-request.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will reconsider decisions underlying a rule governing emissions of a chemical that it has deemed carcinogenic following a request from an industry group.<\/p>\n<p>The agency told stakeholders in letters dated last week that it would reconsider its risk information for ethylene oxide, a chemical the EPA currently says is carcinogenic if it is inhaled.<\/p>\n<p>The EPA also said it would reconsider its prior decision not to use a much lower risk finding from the state of Texas as an alternative risk value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will reconsider decisions underlying a rule governing emissions of a chemical that it has deemed carcinogenic following a request from an industry group. The agency told stakeholders in letters dated last week that it would reconsider its risk information for ethylene oxide, a chemical the EPA currently says is carcinogenic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}