Health Risks from Dioxin and Related Compounds: Evaluation of the EPA Reassessment

Committee on EPA's Exposure and Human Health Reassessment of TCDD and Related Compounds,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

Health Risks from Dioxin and Related Compounds: Evaluation of the EPA Reassessment
Format
Paperback
Publisher
National Academies Press
Country
United States
Published
15 December 2006
Pages
268
ISBN
9780309102582

Health Risks from Dioxin and Related Compounds: Evaluation of the EPA Reassessment

Committee on EPA's Exposure and Human Health Reassessment of TCDD and Related Compounds,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented a comprehensive review of the scientific literature in its 2003 draft reassessment of the risks of dioxin, the agency did not sufficiently quantify the uncertainties and variabilities associated with the risks, nor did it adequately justify the assumptions used to estimate them, according to this new report from the National Academies and National Research Council. The committee that wrote the report recommended that EPA re-estimate the risks using several different assumptions and better communicate the uncertainties in those estimates. The agency also should explain more clearly how it selects both the data upon which the reassessment is based and the methods used to analyze them.

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