Integrated Risk Assessment — Results from an International Workshop
| Autor: | Wayne R. Munns, Glenn W. Suter, Lawrence W. Reiter, Rob Kroes, Erminio Marafante, Terri Damstra |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Engineering
Process management Process (engineering) business.industry Management science Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Ecological Modeling media_common.quotation_subject education Harmonization Pollution Variety (cybernetics) IT risk management Quality (business) business Risk assessment Discipline Risk management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal. 9:379-386 |
| ISSN: | 1549-7860 1080-7039 |
| Popis: | The World Health Organization's International Programme on Chemical Safety and international partners have developed a framework for integrated assessment of human health and ecological risks and four case studies. An international workshop was convened to consider how ecological and health risk assessments might be integrated, the benefits of and obstacles to integration, and the research and mechanisms needed to facilitate implementation of integrated risk assessment. Using the case studies, workshop participants identified a number of opportunities to integrate the assessment process. Improved assessment quality, efficiency, and predictive capability were considered to be principal benefits of integration. Obstacles to acceptance and implementation of integrated risk assessment included the disciplinary and organizational barriers between ecological and health disciplines. A variety of mechanisms were offered to overcome these obstacles. Research recommendations included harmonization of exposure chara... |
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