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General Concepts of Exposure Assessment and the Risk Assessment Training Module
Citation:
Kadry, Abdel-Razak. General Concepts of Exposure Assessment and the Risk Assessment Training Module. Fifth World Congress on Risk, Cape Town, N/A, SOUTH AFRICA, May 05 - 08, 2019.
Impact/Purpose:
This is a risk assessment training module and the website is: https://www.epa.gov/expobox/exposure-assessment-tutorials. The objectives of this course are to provide participants with a basic foundation about the concepts and principles of human exposure assessment.
Description:
Participants of this course will be introduced to the various components of an exposure assessment as well as relevant key terminology. Fundamentals that will be covered include: intake, uptake, and dose; applied, potential, internal, and biologically effective dose; acute dose, average daily dose, and average lifetime dose; and dermal, oral, and respiratory dose. This course will familiarize participants with EPA's existing and soon-to-be updated Exposure Assessment Guidelines and other key exposure assessment resources.