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Article: Integrated risk assessment--results from an international workshop
- Article from:
- Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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CopyrightCopyright CRC Press Feb 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ABSTRACT
The World Health Organization's International Programme on Chemical Safety and international partners have developed a framework for integrated assessment of human health and ecological risks and four case studies. An international workshop was convened to consider how ecological and health risk assessments might be integrated, the benefits of and obstacles to integration, and the research and mechanisms needed to facilitate implementation of integrated risk assessment. Using the case studies, workshop participants identified a number of opportunities to integrate the assessment process. Improved assessment quality, efficiency, and predictive capability were considered to be ...