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Exposure Assessment of Livestock Carcass Management Options During Natural Disasters
Citation:
U.S. EPA. Exposure Assessment of Livestock Carcass Management Options During Natural Disasters. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-17/027, 2017.
Impact/Purpose:
This report describes relative hazards for several livestock carcass management options and evaluates the technologies to mitigate potential hazards to human health, livestock, and the environment in the event of a natural disaster. A quantitative exposure assessment by which livestock carcass management options are ranked relative to one another for a hypothetical site setting, a standardized set of environmental conditions (e.g., meteorology), and following a single set of assumptions about how the carcass management options are designed and implemented. These settings, conditions, and assumptions are not necessarily representative of site-specific carcass management efforts. Therefore, the exposure assessment should not be interpreted as estimating levels of chemical and microbial exposure that can be expected to result from the management options evaluated. The significance of relative rankings and exposure pathways might provide scientifically-based livestock carcass management decisions by the first responders, federal agencies (FEMA, USDA, etc.), state and local practitioners. This exposure assessment also provides information to support choices about mitigation measures to minimize or eliminate specific exposure pathways.
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