Health risk assessments prepared Per the risk assessment reforms under consideration in the U.S. congress

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 713-785

  Crouch, Edmund A C ^a   Lester, Richard R ^a   Lash, Timothy L ^a   Armstrong, Sarah R ^a   Green, Laura C ^a  

^a Cambridge Environmental Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

1,1 dichloroethylene; Legislation; Monte Carlo; Probability; Risk assessment; Risk management; Vinyl chloride

Indexed keywords

EID: 21944454865     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039709383730     Document Type: Article

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