Impressions on Risk: The Forest or the Tree?
| Autor: | Elizabeth K. Weisburger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
| Předmět: |
Finance
medicine.medical_specialty Government Engineering business.industry Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Ecological Modeling Public health media_common.quotation_subject Minor (academic) Public administration Pollution Research council Service (economics) medicine Regulatory agency Specific model Risk assessment business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal. 9:1191-1195 |
| ISSN: | 1549-7860 1080-7039 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10807030390240436 |
| Popis: | Service on the National Research Council's Committee on the Institutional Means for assessment of Risks to Public Health, which produced the report Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process, known as the Red Book, reinforced to me the concept that risk is a factor in many decisions. The manner in which a Federal regulatory agency used National Cancer Institute bioassay data and their specific model to overestimate risk from a minor by product of water chlorination disappointed me. But the situation is improving. |
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