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Department of Health and Human Services
IWC Forum
CRE Enforcement NGOs
What's Wrong With This Picture?
American Association of University Professors
The Second Case in Which the DC Circuit Has Reviewed Agency Actions under the Data Quality Act
Other DQA See MKG
ESA Challenge
NOAA Disavows IWC Endorsement of Engle Study
Congressional Use of DQA
DQA and Climate Change
Atrazine
2008 CRE BPA Recommendations
LA Times Interview
Invoking the “third-party” provisions of the DQA
Review of "Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases" Report of a Joint World Health Organization (WHO)/Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Expert Consultation (WHO Technical Report Series 916) by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture
CRE Urges FDA To Inform BPA Reviewers Of Data Quality Act Standards
NGO Use of Data Quality Act
The DEA Quietly Removes Cannabis
Health Risks from Website
Data Quality Act Challenge
ICRs
Houston DQA Petition
Endocrine Extension?
ATRAZINE Effects in Xenopus Aren’t Reproducible
Interview
CRE DQA Petition to WHO (September '03 Reg Week)
NGOs Recognize DQA Significance for Third-Party Comments
EPA's Response to Atrazine Comments (relevant pages are 18-20)
EPA cannot utilize NRDC’s comments on biosolids because they fail to
meet the requirements of the Data Quality Act
CRE Asks Marine Mammal Commission To Publish DQA Guidelines
NHTSA Warns it Can't Use Public Comment That Doesn't Meet DQA Standards
CRE Commends NOAA/NMFS on DQA Implementation
CRE Letter to the American Association of College Professors Citing the Data Quality Act
CRE Letter to IWC Citing Data Quality Act
HHS Letter to WHO Citing Data Quality Act
OMB Watch article on CRE Data Quality to WHO
Examples of Third Party Interventions
Lasar Letter
Benton Foundation
Daily Kos
Technorati
Social Science Research Council
HHS: Data Quality Act Petitions
HHS has established a website which catalogs all of the data quality petitions(Requests for Correction) and actions thereto pursuant to the Data Quality Act on a website. In response to petitions, the agency has made some substantive changes in its information products, see, for example number 13, smokeless tobacco. CRE has two petitions pending before the agency.
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CRE and Growers File Petition to Correct Description of Review Procedures for 12th Report on Carcinogens Nominations
On May 19, 2004, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program published a Federal Register notice of nominations for listing in the 12th Report on Carcinogens. The notice contains references to two different review procedures, and both cannot be the correct procedures. The petition, filed on June 28, seeks withdrawal of the inaccurate notice and withholding of nominations until the Agency accurately informs the public on what review procedures will apply.
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Environmental Work Group Files Data Quality Act Challenge to FDA Advice on Consumption of Mercury in Fish
On December 22, 2003, EWG filed a 23-page petition with FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. The petition contends that the FDA advisory does not comply with the Data Quality Act legal requirements that information be useful, reproducible, transparent, and based on sound science. EWG has stated that it will seek judicial review of the FDA advice if the petition is not granted.
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for EWG policy statements and news releases.
Petition to Correct Information on Styrene Oxide Use in Reinforced Plastics Operations
On June 10, 2003, the Styrene Informtion and Research Council filed a petition to correct a press release and fact sheet issued in connection with listing of styrene oxide in the 10th Report on Carcinogens. The Council's petition pointed out that the RoC listing carefully explained that styrene oxide apparently was created as an unintentional byproduct in the production of reinforced plastics, whereas the press release and fact sheet indicated that the chemical was used intentionally as a raw material in production.
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Click for information obtained from OMB Watch.
The Salt Insitute and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States challenged a number of disseminations of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute reporting the results of a study of the impact of salt intake on blood pressure
The challenge alleges that the disseminatios are not objective because assertions that study results show that reduction of dietary salt intake would lower blood pressure in all Americans are not supported, and the key study omits key information the would support that assertion.
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for information obtained from OMB Watch.
CRE Challenges Federal Use of WHO Dietary Study, Emphasizes International Scientific Studies Must Comply With Data Quality Act and Guidelines
CRE has filed a Request for Correction of Information contained in a World Health Organization (WHO) Report. Both USDA and HHS have stated an intent to base their 2005 Dietary Guidelines, in part, on a WHO Report. Before USDA and HHS are legally able to rely on any of the data and analyses contained in WHO Technical Report 916, the agencies must conduct a Data Quality pre-dissemination review to ensure that all information used by the agency fully complies with the U.S. Government's Data Quality standards. The pre-dissemination review process needs to include participation by all stakeholders. Subsequent to the review, USDA and HHS or WHO may need to supplement the WHO Report with corrections before the agencies will be able to base policy guidance on any information, including recommendations, contained in the Report.
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to read CRE transmittal letter to USDA and HHS.
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to read CRE transmittal letter to WHO and FAO.
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