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EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT MODELING: A STATE-OF-THE-ART REVIEW
Citation:
Miller, C. EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT MODELING: A STATE-OF-THE-ART REVIEW. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/3-78/065 (NTIS PB286934), 1978.
Description:
The state-of-the-art review of exposure assessment modeling describes currently available models that simulate the environmental fate of substances, the exposure to such substances, and the effects of such exposure. The focus is first on exposure and effects, where relatively little work has been done, and then on models of environmental fate, in particular on intermedia transfer processes. Single-medium air and water quality transport models are not assessed, but the possibility of approaching multi-media problems through a combination or single-medium approaches is explored. The report also describes several actual risk assessments that have been made using limited data and considers some secondary applications of the models. The investigation shows that the available models do not cover all of the areas necessary for an exposure assessment. More effort has been directed to modeling environmental fate than to modeling exposure and effects.