Recent Advances in Quantitative Methods in Cancer and Human Health Risk Assessment (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)
Contributors: Lutz Edler (Editor); Christos Kitsos (Editor)
Publisher: Wiley
Published: June 24, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780470857564
First sentence: In his comprehensive volume on environmental risk assessment, Paustenbach (2002) characterizes risk assessment as the description of the likelihood of adverse or unwanted responses to exposure and states as its goal the estimation of that likelihood after assembling and assessing all scientific information regarding toxicology, human experience, and environmental fate and exposure.