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A PARADIGM FOR ECOLOGIC RISK ASSESSMENT
Pages 10-12

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... Before the two-stage model can be adopted for routine health risk assessments, it will be necessary to expand current rodent bioassay methods so that the necessary data are generated. The two-stage model can be used now to gain insights into induced carcinogenesis, such as identifying and characterizing the critical events, as well as to examine the ranges of assumptions.
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... Although ecologic risk assessment and human health risk assessment differ substantially in their scientific disciplines and technical problems, the committee believes that the underlying decision process is the same for both. Therefore, the committee recommends that a uniform framework be adopted and applied to ecologic and human health risk assessment -- a framework that is flexible and able to facilitate communication between scientists and risk managers.
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... . Finally, the committee recommends that expert committees drawn from the academic community, the private sector, and regulatory agencies develop technical guidance on the scientific conduct of ecologic risk assessments.
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