Finally, two national peer reviewers using the research team network were contacted and asked to review the study findings.
The current Democratic Congress recently enacted a law requiring the E.P.A. to review the study.
Andrew Jacob, a spokesman for the city's Department of Education, said officials there will review the study.
The Food and Drug Administration will review the study proposals from third parties and make recommendations on selection.
At the request of county officials, the city also hired an engineering firm to review the study.
A panel of prominent scientists, hired by the Consumer Healthcare Products Association to review the study, challenged its findings.
But in response to Congressional pressure, the Defense Department late last month asked the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board to review the study.
A spokeswoman for the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, Millie Svatek, said health officials would have to review the study before commenting on the cancer incidence statistics.
Of 29 cases of threat-perception failure in the years under review, the study found, 25 involved black suspects.
Scientists hired to review the study by the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, the industry's main trade group, called it "inconclusive" and said it drew from an insignificant pool of cases.
Entitled "Types of Dietary Fat and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: A Critical Review," the study essentially debunks three decades of research, some of it its very own.
