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Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Institutional Means for Assessment of Risks to Public Health.

Title Risk assessment in the federal government : managing the process / Committee on the Institutional Means for Assessment of Risks to Public Health, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1983

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 191 pages)
Contents 1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 Introduction; 4 1 The Nature of Risk Assessment; 5 2 Inference Guidelines for Risk Assessment; 6 3 Organizational Arrangements for Risk Assessment; 7 4 Recommendations; 8 Appendix A Background Information on Committee Members; 9 Appendix B Bibliography; 10 Appendix C Working Papers
Summary The regulation of potentially hazardous substances has become a controversial issue. This volume evaluates efforts to develop and use risk assessment guidelines, reviews the experience of regulatory agencies with different administrative arrangements for risk assessment, and evaluates various proposals to modify procedures
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189)
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Subject Cancer -- United States -- Prevention -- Decision making
Health planning -- United States -- Decision making
Health risk assessment.
Environmentally induced diseases -- United States -- Prevention
Threshold limit values (Industrial toxicology)
Probabilities.
Risk.
Environmental Exposure
Environmental Pollutants -- adverse effects
Government Agencies
Maximum Allowable Concentration
Probability
Risk
Health Status Indicators
Decision making
Health hazards
Risk assessment
Environmental factors
probability.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
Analyse des risques.
Commissions de contrôle.
Santé publique.
Threshold limit values (Industrial toxicology)
Risk
Probabilities
Cancer -- Prevention -- Decision making
Environmentally induced diseases -- Prevention
Health planning -- Decision making
Health risk assessment
Kanker.
Gezondheid.
Risicoanalyse.
Overheidsbeleid.
SUBJECT United States
Subject Etats-Unis d'Amérique.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585024774
9780585024776