Standard evaluation procedures
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Standard Evaluation Procedures (SEPs)
Developed by EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP)
Provide guidance for the review and evaluation of environmental and human health effects data submitted in response to test orders for the 890 Guideline Series for the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP) Tier 1 battery.
There is an individual SEP for each of the eleven 890 Guideline Series EDSP Tier 1 assays that comprise the battery.
Assist EPA reviewers and support comprehensive and consistent evaluations of major scientific topics.
Provide interpretive scientific and policy guidance where appropriate.
Provide a venue for standardizing data organization and evaluation procedures with the goal of increasing the efficiency, thoroughness and consistency with which individual study evaluations are prepared and assist the scientists to reach clear, reasonable and concise conclusions that are scientifically robust.
The SEPs do not provide guidance for making the determination that a chemical which has been screened using the EDSP Tier 1 assays should move on to Tier 2 testing. The Agency submitted a separate draft guidance document of the Weight-of-Evidence (WoE) for public review and comment as described in a Federal Register Notice issued November 4, 2010 (75 FR 67963).
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