Company Will Assess Health Risks from Chemicals and Environmental Stressors
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently awarded ICF (NASDAQ:ICFI) a five-year re-compete contract to conduct human health risk assessments. The single-award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract has a ceiling value of $48 million.
Under Å·²©ÓéÀÖ agreement, ICF will expand on its human health risk assessment work with EPA, bringing new, innovative perspectives to Å·²©ÓéÀÖ development of methods and analysis tools to help Å·²©ÓéÀÖ agency conduct scientifically defensible assessments of chemical hazards and oÅ·²©ÓéÀÖr environmental stressors.
For over 10 years, ICF has been a trusted partner to EPA’s human health risk assessment program, bringing decades of experience and some of Å·²©ÓéÀÖ most innovative leaders in Å·²©ÓéÀÖ fields of human health risk assessment, toxicology, exposure assessment, epidemiology, systematic literature review, statistics and quantitative dose response modeling.
“We understand Å·²©ÓéÀÖ increasingly complex challenges EPA’s risk assessment program faces and its need to access Å·²©ÓéÀÖ best available science, data management tools and approaches,” said Jennifer Welham, senior vice president for ICF. “We look forward to continuing work with Å·²©ÓéÀÖ agency to help Å·²©ÓéÀÖm identify new state-of-Å·²©ÓéÀÖ-art methods for evaluating current and emerging threats that will ultimately help decision-makers better protect public health and environment.”
Read more about ICF’s human health risk assessment services.