Health risks from dioxin and related compounds : evaluation of the EPA reassessment /

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Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented a comprehensive review of the scientific literature in its 2003 draft reassessment of the risks of dioxin, the agency did not sufficiently quantify the uncertainties and variabilities associated with the risks, nor did it adequately justify...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on EPA's Exposure and Human Health Reassessment of TCDD and Related Compounds, National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2006.
Temas:
United States. > Environmental Protection Agency.
United States. > Environmental Protection Agency
Dioxins > Toxicology.
Dioxins > Carcinogenicity.
Dioxins > toxicity
Dioxins > analysis
Environmental Monitoring > methods
Neoplasms > chemically induced
Risk Assessment > methods
Dioxines > Toxicologie.
Dioxines > Cancérogénicité.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.
Dioxins > Toxicology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented a comprehensive review of the scientific literature in its 2003 draft reassessment of the risks of dioxin, the agency did not sufficiently quantify the uncertainties and variabilities associated with the risks, nor did it adequately justify the assumptions used to estimate them, according to this new report from the National Academies' National Research Council. The committee that wrote the report recommended that EPA re-estimate the risks using several different assumptions and better communicate the uncertainties in those estimates. The agency also should explain more clearly how it selects both the data upon which the reassessment is based and the methods used to analyze them.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxvi, 239 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780309662734
0309662737

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