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Rethink chemical risk assessments

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  • George M. Gray

    (George M. Gray is director of the Center for Risk Science and Public Health at George Washington University, Washington DC 20037, USA. In 2005–09, he was assistant administrator to the EPA Office of Research and Development and EPA science adviser.)

  • Joshua T. Cohen

    (Joshua T. Cohen is deputy director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 02111, USA. He served on the National Academies committees that reviewed the EPA's dioxin risk assessment in 2006 and its risk-assessment methodologies in 2009.)

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The US Environmental Protection Agency needs to speed up its risk analyses and address uncertainty, say George M. Gray and Joshua T. Cohen.

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  • George M. Gray & Joshua T. Cohen, 2012. "Rethink chemical risk assessments," Nature, Nature, vol. 489(7414), pages 27-28, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:489:y:2012:i:7414:d:10.1038_489027a
    DOI: 10.1038/489027a
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