Judah Prero Addresses EPA Scrutiny of Formaldehyde at AHFA 2024 Compliance Summit
August 27, 2024
Environmental counsel Judah Prero was featured in the Home News Now article, “CPSC Commissioner Kicks off AHFA 2024 Compliance Summit.”
Prero spoke at the session titled “An IRIS No One Wants to See Bloom,” where he discussed how the use of formaldehyde is under threat because of a 2022 draft assessment by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). “For openers, IRIS was never authorized by Congress, so there is no law that says the EPA has to look at formaldehyde this way,” Prero noted.
Prero added that the EPA has disregarded multiple key studies that challenge its stance on formaldehyde. “Despite criticism by the scientific community... the EPA continues to defer to IRIS,” he said.
