|
|
Article: Gradient Scientist Develops a Significant Improvement for Human Health Uncertainty Analysis.
- Article from:
- Business Wire
- Article date:
- December 19, 2007
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2007 Business Wire. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Lorenz R. Rhomberg, Ph.D., a well-known toxicologist and Principal at Gradient Corporation has developed an improved method to characterize uncertainty in human health risk assessment. This approach, termed Hypothesis-based Weight of Evidence, is much less ambiguous than existing uncertainty analyses because it uses a more transparent, rational approach to toxicity data from animal studies for which human relevance has not been clearly established, that may contain contradictory test results and/or often require large extrapolations from high to low doses.
According to Dr. Rhomberg, the key to achieving clarity and effective uncertainty ...