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Alternatives Assessment Frameworks: Research Needs for the Informed Substitution of Hazardous Chemicals

Author(s) -

Molly Jacobs,

Timothy Malloy,

Joel Tickner,

Sally Edwards

Publication year - 2015

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.1409581

Subject(s) - risk analysis (engineering) , flexibility (engineering) , safer , risk assessment , process (computing) , hazardous waste , computer science , consistency (knowledge bases) , life cycle assessment , management science , business , engineering , production (economics) , statistics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , economics , macroeconomics , operating system , computer security , waste management

Given increasing pressures for hazardous chemical replacement, there is growing interest in alternatives assessment to avoid substituting a toxic chemical with another of equal or greater concern. Alternatives assessment is a process for identifying, comparing, and selecting safer alternatives to chemicals of concern (including those used in materials, processes, or technologies) on the basis of their hazards, performance, and economic viability.

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