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On the recordAugust 3, 2010
Particularly when you have what the Administrator referred to as a real emergency going on, the time at that point for the RRT process to go through a scientific evaluative process of determining what the toxicity consequences are off of the public data that has been filed is, you are under a lot of pressure at that point.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse discusses the urgency and pressure during emergencies affecting safety evaluations.

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