The US Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a Biden‑era draft risk assessment covering PFOA and PFOS in land‑applied biosolids.

As described in Chapter 4, risk assessment is an important analytic tool used to evaluate the effects of environmental stressors on ecosystem and human health. This tool has been applied over the past ...

EPA has developed help for assessing and managing environmental risks, including guidance documents and tools ( the models and databases), used in our own risk assessments. In some cases, these ...

The combined emissions of metals and other environmentally hazardous substances from ships is putting the marine environment at risk according to a new study from Chalmers University of Technology, ...

A committee of the National Research Council (NRC) will conduct a two-part study to assess and advance current approaches to toxicity testing and assessment to meet regulatory data needs. In the first ...

A new mechanistic risk index projects that climate change will reduce fascioliasis risk across most of Africa while ...

The causative agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. To date, the virus ...

EPA's human health risk assessment research informs the process to estimate the nature and probability of adverse health effects in humans who may be exposed to chemicals in contaminated environmental ...

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