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Article: Research from Environmental Protection Agency yields new data on environmental health.
- Article from:
- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- September 4, 2009
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"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is facing large challenges in managing environmental chemicals with increasingly complex requirements for assessing risk that push the limits of our current approaches," scientists in the United States report.
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