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Article: Human Health Risk Assessment: GAO Survey of EPA Risk Assessment Practices.
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- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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GAO-06-637SP May 31, 2006
This document presents selected results of GAO's Web-based Survey of EPA Risk Assessment Practices. The purpose of this survey was to collect information on the how EPA's efforts since 1994 to improve the risk assessment process have affected the preparation of human health risk assessments. We surveyed EPA risk assessors on topics such as guidance documents, training, research collaboration, and peer review. We sent the survey to 270 risk assessors in the Office of Research and Development, and the program offices of Air and Radiation, Pesticides, Pollution ...