Health risks from dioxin and related compounds: evaluation of the epa reassessment

Auteur :
National Research Council / Division on Earth and Life Studies / Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology / Committee on EPA's Exposure and Human Health Reassessment of TCDD and Related Compounds
Éditeur :
National Academies Press
ISBN :
9780309102582
Date de publication :
20 nov. 2006
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Presents the view that although the US Environmental Protection Agency presented a review of the scientific literature in its 2003 draft reassessment of the risks of dioxin, the agency did not sufficiently quantify the uncertainties and variabilities associated with the risks, nor did it adequately justify the assumptions used to estimate them.