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Interpretation of Risk Assessment Results
Pages 13-15

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... Therefore, comparison of RMEs with the RfD can be used to screen out chemicals that do not pose health risks or to show that simultaneous exposure to a large number of chemicals is safe, but cannot be used to determine the actual health effects in US Navy personnel, their families, and other persons living or working at NAF Atsugi. Careful consideration should be given to the characteristics of the exposures that are being estimated and to the derivation of the toxicity values with which the exposure estimates are compared for both the risk assessment itself and the communication of those risks.
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... 'rhe exposure conditions at NAF Atsugi should be kept in mind when one is considering the toxicity of the chemicals present. For example, NEHC discusses the potential health effects of cadmium, but cadmium is a slowly accumulating toxicant that causes adverse effects only after chronic exposure (Goyer ~ 996)
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... . The NEHC draft summary report mentions uncertainty only in saying that the risk assessment was developed with the "minimum degree of uncertainty"; it fails to disclose the types or magnitudes of any source of uncertainty and fails to discuss the impact of uncertainty in the context of the risk-assessment results.
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