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Exposure as Part of a Systems Approach for Assessing Risk

Author(s) -

Linda S. Sheldon,

Elaine A. Cohen Hubal

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.0800407

Subject(s) - risk assessment , agency (philosophy) , risk analysis (engineering) , adverse outcome pathway , computer science , population , exposure assessment , data science , medicine , environmental health , computer security , biology , philosophy , epistemology , computational biology

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is facing large challenges in managing environmental chemicals with increasingly complex requirements for assessing risk that push the limits of our current approaches. To address some of these challenges, the National Research Council (NRC) developed a new vision for toxicity testing. Although the report focused only on toxicity testing, it recognized that exposure science will play a crucial role in a new risk-based framework.

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