Public Summary: Health Risks from Dioxin and Related Compounds Evaluation of the EPA Reassessment

Title:

Resource Type:

document --> technical publication --> report

Country:

USA

Year:

2006

Availability:

Report in Brief, July 2006

Author 1/Producer:

National Acadamies of Sciences

Author / Producer Type:

Professional / trade / industry associations, institutes or networks

Publisher:

National Acadamies of Sciences

Publisher City:

Washington DC, USA

Report / download web link (=direct link):

http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/dioxin_brief_final.pdf

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PDF

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EUGRIS Keyword(s):

Contaminated land-->Contaminants-->Others
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Risk assessment overview
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Toxicological information

Short description:

Extract from Key Findings: The committee identifi ed three areas that require substantial improvement in describing the scientifi c basis for EPA’s dioxin risk assessment to support a suffi cient risk characterization: • Justification of approaches to dose-response modeling for cancer and noncancer end points. • Transparency and clarity in selection of key data sets for analysis. • Transparency, thoroughness, and clarity in quantitative uncertainty analysis.

Link to News Items(s):

USA - EPA assessment of dioxin understates uncertainty about health risks and may overstate human cancer risk

Submitted By:

Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat? Last update: 23/07/2006