Abstract
Since risk assessments can involve a large number of steps, including calculations requiring expertise in a wide range of scientific disciplines as well as mathematics and statistics, there is a need to subdivide the process. By doing this, the analyses of data and the calculations are separated into parts that can be handled by individuals with the appropriate expertise, ensuring that these same individuals don’t wander off into parts of the assessment for which they have inadequate training. If separated in the proper way, it even is possible to produce an assessment in which any of the separate parts can be revised without necessarily revising all of the other parts.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
National Research Council, Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process,National Academy Press, 1983.
Personal communication, Sylvaine Cordier, INSERM, Villejuif, Paris, December, 1998.
Environmental Protection Agency, Framework for Ecological Risk Assessment, Washington, DC, 1992.
M. Suganuma, H. Fujiki, H. Suguri, S. Yoshizawa, M. Hirota, M. Nakayasu, M. Ojika, K. Wakamatsu, K Yamada, and T. Sugimura., “Okadaic Acid: An Additional Non-phorbol-12-tetradecanoate-13-acetate-type Tumor Promoter”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA, 85, 1768, 1988.
F. Katph, D. Fitzgerald, L. Giroldi, H. Fujiki, T. Sugimura, and H. Yamasaki, “Okadaic Acid and Phorbol Esters”, Japanese Journal of Cancer Research, 81, 590, 1990.
For a discussion of both these original guidelines, and proposed revisions, see Environmental Protection Agency, Proposed Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment, 61 Federal Register, 17960, 1996.
Environmental Protection Agency, Title III Fact Sheet, US Government Printing Office, 718/810–1302/1280, 1987.
T. Aldrich, J. Griffith, R. Gustafson, and D. Graber, “Public Communication, Participation, Risk Management”, in Environmental Epidemiology and Risk Assessment, ed. by T. Aldrich and J. Griffith, Van Nostrand Reinhold, p. 240, 1993.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1999 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Crawford-Brown, D.J. (1999). The Structure of Environmental Risk Assessments. In: Risk-Based Environmental Decisions. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5227-7_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5227-7_2
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4613-7382-7
Online ISBN: 978-1-4615-5227-7
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive