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CONSISTENCY OF CASE STUDIES WITH THE 1983 FRAMEWORK
Pages 251-253

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... The report did not, however, include in-depth discussion of scientific issues in health risk assessment. The 1983 committee's objectives were limited to addressing institutional and procedural issues: whether the analytic process of risk assessment should be cleanly separated from the regulatory process of risk management, whether a single organization could be designated to perform risk assessments for all regulatory agencies, and whether uniform risk assessment guidelines could be developed for use by all regulatory agencies.
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From page 252...
... available to the committee relates forest-cutting patterns to population dynamics and clearly includes exposure and dose-response assessments in the sense in which these terms are used in the Red Book framework. The species introduction case study does not appear at first to fit the standard definition of a risk assessment.
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From page 253...
... Ecological risk assessments have no equivalent of the lifetime cancer risk estimate used in health risk assessment. The ecological risks of interest differ qualitatively between different stresses, ecosystem types, and locations.
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