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<blockquote>''The Institute for Regulatory Policy, a research group headed by Thorne Auchter, and affiliated with [[Federal Focus]], Inc., recently submitted a report to the Vice President's Council on Competitiveness proposing an Executive Order that would provide centralized guidance for the scientitic objectivity of risk assessments. The 170-page report is titled "Toward Common Measures: Recommendations for a Presidential Executive Order on: Environmental Risk Assessment and Risk Management Policy."'' [http://tobaccodocuments.org/pm/2023516857-7321.p121-130.html?#p129]</blockquote>
Federal Focus is a by Philip Morris funded [[The U.S. tax code and non profits|501(c)(3)]] non-profit organization set up by Thorne Auchter and [[James Tozzi]] in 1986. Later James Tozzi changed his focus to his company [[Multinational Business Services]] (MBS) while Thorne Auchter founded IRP as a subsidiary of Federal Focus. [http://www.electric-words.com/junk/carlo/carlo2.html] Other Federal Focus subsidaries were 'Center for Epidemiological Studies' (director: Gary Kayajanian, Ph.D.), 'Health Policy Institute' (director: Joel Rosenblatt, Ph.D.) [http://tobaccodocuments.org/pm/2023593752.html] and the 'Center for the Study of Environmental Endocrine Effects' (CSEEE). Only IRP and CSEEE are still mentioned of the Federal Focus site as '<i>Past Operating Subunits</i>. [http://www.fedfocus.org/organization.html] The 990 form of Federal Focus for 2002 (last available one on GuideStar) has 4 people listed as managers: Jim J. Tozzi (director), Barbara Tozzi (treasurer), William Kelly (secretary), and James Tang (vice president). [http://documents.guidestar.org/2002/521/491/2002-521491985-1-F.pdf] Federal Focus still uses the same address in Washington that was also used for MSB. [http://tobaccodocuments.org/pm/2023329902-9903.html] Joel Rosenblatt represented on June 7, 1999 the '[[Center for Regulatory Effectiveness]]' (CRE) which some people see as the successor of IRP. [http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/ec05279m.pdf]
In internal Philip Morris documents lobbyist James Tozzi was described as the company's "primary contact on the EPA/ETS risk assessment during the second half of 1992." During that period, it noted, "Tozzi has been invaluable in executing our Washington efforts including generating technical briefing papers, numerous letters to agencies and media interviews," a service for which Philip Morris paid an estimated $300,000 in consulting fees. The document added that "Tozzi could also be helpful in other regulatory matters (food and environmental) affecting PM."