USEPA's risk assessment practice: Default assumptions, uncertainty factors

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 70-76

  Schoeny, Rita ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

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EID: 33847148846     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030601107304     Document Type: Review

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