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Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 112, Number 8, June 2004 Open Access
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Risk Assessment at the EPA: An Agency Self-Exam Risk Assessment at the EPA: An Agency Self-Exam

Charles W. Schmidt

Abstract

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has for the first time conducted an internal investigation of its own approach to risk assessment. The investigation's results are contained in a 193-page staff paper released in final form 25 March 2004. The staff paper is a snapshot of how risk assessments are currently performed at the EPA, but also provides recommendations for how the agency can strengthen and improve its risk assessments.


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