External Peer Review Activities for PFHxS Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Assessment (Feb 2024)
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Meeting Agenda
Meeting Objective
To facilitate the independent external peer review of the draft PFAS IRIS assessments, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contracted with ERG to run a public meeting. This website serves as a resource for the peer review activities associated with the draft IRIS assessment of PFHxS. To help address this complex issue, the EPA is taking a proactive approach. Specifically, the development of human health toxicity assessments for exposure to individual PFAS represents only one component of the broader PFAS action plan underway at the EPA. The five Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) toxicity assessments are being developed according to the scope and methods outlined in the systematic review protocol building upon several other PFAS assessments that have already been developed.
Dates and Meeting Registration
Dates
- Monday, February 26, 2024: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
- Tuesday, February 27, 2024: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
- Friday, March 1, 2024: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT
Registration Links:
The peer review meeting will take place via Zoom and will be open to anyone to attend as an observer. The meeting will include a brief public comment period.
- Webinar Registration - Zoom (zoomgov.com)
- EPA External Peer Review Meeting (erg.com)
- Contact for questions regarding the peer review: laurie.waite@erg.com (subject line: PFHxS Peer Review Meeting).
Panel Details
Panel Members
- Courtney C. Carignan, Ph.D. Professor, Michigan State University
- Alan M. Ducatman, MD, M.Sc, Professor, West Virginia University
- Elaine M. Faustman, Ph.D., DABT Professor, University of Washington
- Panagiotis G. Georgopoulos, Ph.D. Professor, Rutgers University
- Joseph T. Haney, M.S. Distinguished Toxicologist, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
- Angela Leung, Ph.D. Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, UCLA
- Zhoumeng Lin, Ph.D., DABT, Professor, University of Florida
- David A. Savitz, Ph.D. Professor, Brown University
- R. Thomas Zoeller, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Panel Formation Process
- Federal Register Notice: Request for Nominations of Experts for the Review of EPA's Draft Toxicological Reviews of Perfluorodecanoic Acid (PFDA), Perfluorononanoic Acid (PFNA), Perfluorohexanoic Acid (PFHxA), Perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS), and Perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA)
- List of Candidates for IRIS PFAS Peer Review
Additional Information
For more information regarding registration or the peer review meeting, please contact laurie.waite@erg.com (subject line: PFHxA Peer Review Meeting). If you have a disability that interferes with your ability to access the information on this page or with participation in the Peer Review Meeting, please contact laurie.waite@erg.com (subject line: PFHxS Peer Review Meeting Assistance) and let us know the nature of the accessibility problem and the preferred format that you want to receive the information (electronic format (e.g., ASCII, standard print, large print, etc.).
Meeting Materials
- IRIS Toxicological Review of Perfluorohexanesulfonic Acid (PFHxS) and Related Salts (Public Comment and External Review Draft)
- External Peer Review Charge Questions for the IRIS Toxicological Review of PFHxS (PDF) (7 pp, 322.3 KB, about PDF)
- Meeting Agenda for the PFHxS External Peer Review Meeting (Feb/Mar 2024) (PDF) (2 pp, 55.7 KB, about PDF)
- EPA Presentation on the Toxicological Review of Perfluorohexanesulfonic Acid (PFHxS) and Related Salts (External Peer Review Meeting, Feb 2024) (PDF) (41 pp, 1.7 MB, about PDF)
- External Panel Peer Review of EPA’s Draft Toxicological Review of Perfluorohexanesulfonic Acid (PFHxS) and Related Salts (Final Peer Review Report) (PDF) (194 pp, 2.4 MB, about PDF)