The Red Book: A reassessment of risk assessment

From: Human and Ecological Risk Assessment | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

The risk assessment process as spelled out in the National Research Council's (NRC's) report Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process, called the "Red Book," has created a framework for incorporation of toxicology into environmental decision-making that has withstood the test of time. However, the time has come for a reassessment of this framework. Risk assessment is often unsuccessful as a public health tool when data are limited and it does not, in itself, provide an incentive for the generation of new data. The risk assessment framework did not envision the ...

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