Risk Assessment (RA) is a tool used by the EPA to characterize the nature and magnitude of health risks to humans and ecological receptors from chemical contaminants and other stressors that may be ...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should examine whether combined exposures to chemicals known as phthalates could cause adverse health effects in humans, says a new report from ...
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Our nation's environmental laws developed piecemeal without a holistic view of the totality of environmental and other stressors that an individual or community may confront. Statutes adopted in the ...
A National Research Council committee will evaluate human health risks and the potential for conducting a cumulative risk assessment for phthalate esters. The committee will review critical scientific ...
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Argonne National Laboratory, "Cumulative risk characterizations differ considerably from single chemical-or single source-based risk ...
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(Beyond Pesticides, November 26, 2012) The U.S Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) risk assessment process does not account for cumulative dietary exposure to the multitude of pesticides on ...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...