Title 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, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

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Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2006.

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Description	1 online resource (xxvi, 239 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	General considerations of uncertainty and variability, selection of dose metric and dose-response modeling -- Toxic equivalency factors -- Exposure assessment -- Cancer -- Noncancer end points -- Review of risk characterization -- Conclusions and recommendations.
Summary	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' 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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Subject	United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
	United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
	United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
	Dioxins -- Toxicology.
	Dioxins -- Toxicology.
	Dioxins -- Carcinogenicity.
	Dioxins.
	Dioxins -- toxicity.
	Dioxins -- analysis.
	Environmental Monitoring -- methods.
	Neoplasms -- chemically induced.
	Risk Assessment -- methods.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on EPA's Exposure and Human Health Reassessment of TCDD and Related Compounds.
	National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.
Other Form:	Print version: Health risks from dioxin and related compounds. Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2006 9780309102582 (DLC) 2006933608 (OCoLC)76883866
ISBN	9780309662734 (electronic book)
	0309662737 (electronic book)
	0309102588 (paperback)
	9780309102582 (paperback)

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