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Appendix H Workshop Summary
Pages 343-346

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... There was general agreement on the need for ecological risk assessment to be broadly defined. As noted in the plenary presentations by Drs.
From page 344...
... Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution. Despite the complexities, there was a clear consensus that it is feasible to talk about assessing ecological risks in a manner analogous to human health risk assessment and that most, and perhaps all, types of ecological risk assessment can be accommodated within a single conceptual framework.
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... Some of the above issues might never be fully resolved. However, workshop participants familiar with health risk assessment often noted that the same or similar difficulties also affect health risk assessment, and the existence of difficulties has not precluded health risk assessments.
From page 346...
... 346 Future discussions will concern conceptual form, technical development, and implementation in specific circumstances. The reality of ecological risk quantitative risk assessment were even applicable to ecological problems.


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