Distortions of the 'Mis-Read' Book: Adding Procedural Botox to Paralysis by Analysis

Autor:	Franklin E. Mirer
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Government business.industry Process (engineering) Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Ecological Modeling Legislation Decision rule Public relations Pollution Chemical exposure Medicine business Citation Risk assessment Risk management
Zdroj:	Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal. 9:1129-1143
ISSN:	1549-7860 1080-7039
Popis:	Twenty years after the publication of the National Research Council's report Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process, called the “Red Book,” we can call it the “mis-read” book, despite its great influence and frequent citation. The book is best remembered for the four-step paradigm for risk assessment, a useful matrix for analysis of the process of defining chemical exposure limits. However, the primary purpose of the study was to judge early proposals for adding “procedural botox” to the paralysis-by-analysis then slowing public health interventions against chemicals. Our Red Book Committee rejected that approach. Another recommendation, separating risk assessment from risk management, has also been misinterpreted. Unfortunately, the committee's long discussion of adding alternatives to default, consistent decision rules was cited to support elaboration of risk assessment by those who seek to obstruct public health protection. This strategy crystallized into legislation, most rece...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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