Step
1.7 Preparing for Health Effects Evaluation
Preliminary Identification and Next Steps
You are now ready to decide whether people who are coming in contact with selected
chemicals could get sick from their exposure.
To do this, you take the following steps
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Calculate
site-specific doses
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Select health guidelines
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Compare site-specific doses to health guidelines (observed effect levels)
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Assess relevance of the critical study
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Evaluate other substance-specific factors
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Evaluate site-specific health effects data
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