"They know if they don't have all their ducks in a row, it's probably going to be shot down by a peer-review panel."

It needs checks and balances to be spent wisely, but that is why the peer-review panels are there.

Competitive grants are awarded to applicants upon the recommendation of a peer-review panel.

In 2013, a peer-review panel convened by the National Toxicology Program unanimously recommended that 1-bromopropane, be classified as reasonably anticipated human carcinogens.

Now that fund has been increased to $30 million to be allotted by the peer-review panels.

TWG members participate in the peer-review panels that evaluate potential solutions to address practitioner needs.

"If it was given a good ranking by a peer-review panel, it would be considered, yes."

With no peer-review panels looking over their shoulders, they have only their integrity to keep them honest.

The peer-review panel will make a "verbatim record" of the proceedings.

In each case, peer-review panels said the doctors' conduct posed an imminent danger to the health, safety or well-being of patients.