Article: Ranking risk. (evaluating relative risk) (Column)

Relative risk is getting a lot of discussion. At last month's Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) meeting at The Greenbrier, the most talked about presentation was by DuPont senior v.p. Robert Luft on a strategy to develop public policy based on relative risk.

Relative risk has been high on the list of speech-making topics for industry leaders in the past few months. "Malaria is more lethal than the depleted ozone layer," declared Rhone-Poulenc chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou at the world chemicals Forum in Paris in April, calling for better public recognition of a hierarchy of risks. The same month, Eastman Chemical's CEO Earnest Deavenport called for the use ...

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