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Main Title Risk assessment and management : framework for decision making /
CORP Author United States. Environmental Protection Agency.; Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. Office of the Administrator.
Publisher The Agency,
Year Published 1984
Report Number EPA/600-9-85-002
Stock Number PB85-170157
OCLC Number 11571657
Subjects Health risk assessment--United States ; Hazardous substances--Environmental aspects--United States ; Environmental policy--United States ; Risk management--United States
Additional Subjects Health risk assessment--United States ; Hazardous substances--Environmental aspects--United States ; Environmental policy--United States ; Risk ; Chemical compounds ; Environmental surveys ; Hazardous materials ; Management planning ; Assessments ; Regulations ; Public health ; Dosage ; Toxicology ; Guidelines ; Cost analysis ; Toxic substances ; Ecosystems
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EHAM  RA427.3.R57 1984x Region 1 Library/Boston,MA 04/29/2016
EJDD  EPA 600/9-85-002 Env Science Center Library/Ft Meade,MD 12/20/2002
EJED  EPA 600/9-85-002 OCSPP Chemical Library/Washington,DC 01/01/1988
EKBD  EPA-Z/1235 Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC 09/02/2014
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600-9-85-002 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023 DISPERSAL
ERAD  EPA 600/9-85-002 Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA 03/04/2013
ESAD  EPA 600-9-85-002 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 03/23/2010
NTIS  PB85-170157 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 35 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Abstract
The risk assessment and risk management initiatives described in this report are tools which will help make possible more efficient protection of the environment and human health. The authors expect to gain the following specific management advantages: Risk assessment and risk management help set priorities. There are thousands of chemicals in commerce and an unknown number of contaminants and unintended by-products. Some of these could be important as pollutants, and as such, are proper targets for regulation if they pose significant risks to health or the environment. The authors do not have the budget, nor will we ever have the time, to test each chemical exhaustively. Screening by estimates of potential risk reduction is an attractive basis for comparing regulatory priorities. They can use risk analytic methods to help sort problems in terms of the likelihood that the Agency can do something constructive and effective to improve public health and the environment. Risk management provides a context for balanced analysis and decision-making. Toxic chemicals are legitimately frightening: they can and do cause cancer and other diseases. The trouble is that we are exposed to a complex, highly dilute mixture of chemicals, taken in through air, water, and food. When disease strikes, cause and effect are seldom clearly linked. The Agency can contribute to rational discussion by exposing the scientific basis for the risk, including the confidence they have in the estimate; placing the risk reduction expected from the regulation in context with other risks and other opportunities for risk reduction; and explaining the values on which the balancing judgments have been made. Risk assessment and management produce more efficient and consistent risk reduction policies. EPA's patchwork of authorities for controlling pollution needs to be woven together more coherently, beginning at the analytical level and continuing through to the regulatory decision. Some important differences - defined by statute - in the ways the laws manage risk will always remain, but a risk management approach can use their remaining administrative flexibility to make more efficient use of the Agency's and society's resources to reduce risk and to make the Agency's actions more consistent.
Notes
Cover title. "December 1984." "EPA/600-9-85-002."