[NRC 2009]. Risk assessment of chemical hazards must include analysis of acute and chronic impacts, covering exposures from research and development, manufacturing, and product use, to eventual fate ...

Figure 1: Comparison of the current and proposed approaches for the terrestrial ecological risk assessment of chemical substances. Full size image The conceptual model for terrestrial ecosystems ...

A systematic literature review by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) suggests that the current system of chemical risk assessment is inadequate ...

EPA found certain uses of two chemicals used in plastics are associated with developmental and reproductive health issues and ...

May 20, 2019 MINNEAPOLIS -- AIHce EXP 2019 attendees filled a meeting room May 20 to learn about current NIOSH work projects on chemical risk assessments and management of those risks. The session ...

“This rule charts the path for our risk evaluations to ensure we meet the core objective to protect public health under our nation’s premier chemical safety law, which will in turn lead to ...

Exposure science, toxicology, and epidemiology are shedding light on how disruption of biological pathways causes disease, opening the door for a new era in chemical risk assessment, says a report ...

The international Chemical Accident Risk Assessment Thesaurus (CARAT(TM)) is designed to cut out the confusion and difficulties in communication brought about by differences in methodologies in risk ...

Using formaldehyde, a common chemical that can cause cancer and other chronic conditions, presents an “unreasonable risk of injury ... its cancer hazard assessment, and because of “extremely ...

A challenge to a federal assessment of the cancer risk for a chemical produced in Louisiana used to manufacture goods ranging from antifreeze to detergents has been rejected by a U.S. court of ...

Toxic air emissions, primarily from Westlake Chemical ... cancer risk" for residents of one Kentucky town, according to more than a year of air monitoring data and a new risk assessment released ...