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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Institutional Means for Assessment of Risks to Public Health.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer--United States--Prevention--Decision making.
- Cancer.
- Health planning--United States--Decision making.
- Health planning.
- Health risk assessment.
- Environmentally induced diseases--United States--Prevention.
- Environmentally induced diseases.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 191 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1983.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780309598804
- 030959880X
- 9780585024776
- 0585024774
- OCLC:
- 70772870
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