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It's Time to Make Risk Assessment a Science
David E. Burmaster,Jay H. Lehr +1 more
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This article is published in Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation.The article was published on 1991-08-01. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Risk assessment & Risk analysis (business).read more
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The benefits of probabilistic exposure assessment: three case studies involving contaminated air, water, and soil.
TL;DR: A number of data distributions for various exposure variables are recommended that are now sufficiently well understood to be used with confidence in most exposure assessments and may require additional research before adequate data distributions can be developed.
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The practice of health risk assessment in the united states (1975–1995): How the U.S. and other countries can benefit from that experience
TL;DR: This paper reviews the historical evolution of health risk assessment in the United States and the scientific shortcomings in the process that have been introduced due to various regulatory policies and predicts risk assessment will undoubtedly grow in importance within the international arena as other countries search for an ideal balance between cost and risk reduction.
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Comparing the Results of a Monte Carlo Analysis with EPA′s Reasonable Maximum Exposed Individual (RMEI): A Case Study of a Former Wood Treatment Site
TL;DR: The authors' analyses indicate that when assessing exposure to soil via inhalation, ingestion, and dermal contact, the current regulatory approach used to estimate the reasonable maximally exposed individual (RMEI) can predict risks which are 10- to 100-fold greater than the 95th percentile risk predicted by a Monte Carlo analysis.
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Health‐based soil action levels for trivalent and hexavalent chromium: A comparison with state and federal standards
TL;DR: A state and federal survey of cleanup levels for hexavalent and trivalent chromium [Cr(VI and Cr(III)] indicated a general concurrence of approaches (i.e., most states are using the USEPA standard risk assessment model with upper bound estimates of exposure and USEPA toxicity criteria), although the proposed values vary by as much as 5 orders of magnitude as discussed by the authors.
Attached are Public Citizen's Comments to the 2004 Draft Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations.
TL;DR: In 1998, the authors extended the comment period by 30 days to October 16, 1998 and established, after discussion with congressional staff, a new schedule for final publication, which was published in the Federal Register with a 30 day comment period.