| Title: |
Health Risks from Dioxin and Related Compounds: Evaluation of the EPA Reassessment
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| Resource Type: |
document --> technical publication --> report
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| Country: |
USA
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| Year: |
2006 |
| Availability: |
Contract 68-C-03-081
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| Author 1/Producer: |
Committee on EPA's Exposure and Human Health Reassessment of TCDD and Related Compounds
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| Other Authors/Producers: |
National Research Council
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Professional / trade / industry associations, institutes or networks
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| Publisher: |
The National Academies Press
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| Publisher City: |
500 Fifth Street NW
Box 285
Washington DC 20055
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| ISBN: |
0309102588
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| Report / download web link (=direct link): |
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11688.html
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Contaminants-->Others
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Risk assessment overview
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Toxicological information
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| Short description: |
Report is available for purchase
Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented a comprehensive review of the scientific literature in its 2003 draft reassessment of the risks of dioxin, the agency did not sufficiently quantify the uncertainties and variabilities associated with the risks, nor did it adequately justify the assumptions used to estimate them, according to this new report from the National Academies' National Research Council. The committee that wrote the report recommended that EPA re-estimate the risks using several different assumptions and better communicate the uncertainties in those estimates. The agency also should explain more clearly how it selects both the data upon which the reassessment is based and the methods used to analyze them.
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 23/07/2006
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