What does DQA stand for?

Today, statutes such as the Data Quality Act and the Access to Data Act, Supreme Court rulings in Daubert v.

The chemical industry is using a two-paragraph provision in the 2000 Data Quality Act to remove chemicals from the National Toxicology Program's Report on Carcinogens (ROC), says OMB Watch.

Genta is filing a complaint under the Federal Data Quality Act to correct the record.

On its face, the Data Quality Act merely requires government agencies to field complaints over the data, studies, and reports they disseminate, in order to ensure the "quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity" of the information.

The CRE, self-described as a regulatory watchdog group supported by business and trade associations, relies on the so-called Data Quality Act (2001), an obscure provision of a spending bill, which requires governmental agencies to develop guidelines for "ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information" they disseminate.

Congress is considering tort reform; the Data Quality Act (Office of Management and Budget 2002) produced a large number of new federal regulations about how government agencies may use scientific data; Daubert hearings (Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy 2003), based on a 10-year-old Supreme Court decision and its progeny, dominate product liability and toxic tort litigation; and the American Law Institute is revisiting its Restatement of Torts (American Law Institute 2003) that proposes to tell judges and others how scientists determine causation.

Data sharing within, across and between agencies is becoming a higher profile initiative in federal and state governments, largely driven by FEA, FISMA, and the Data Quality Act.

The Data Quality Act directs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue guidelines for "ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information .