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WHO: INTEGRATED RISK ASSESSMENT

Description:

Historically, human health and environmental risk assessment methodologies have generally developed independently. Regulatory agencies often use a chemical-by-chemical approach, focusing on a single media, a single source, and a single toxic endpoint. Many international and national organizations have expressed a need for an integrated, holistic approach to risk assessment that addresses real life situations of multichemical, multimedia, multiroute, and multispecies exposures and IPCS has initiated efforts to develop approaches for a framework for integrated risk assessment.

Why this Tool/Guidance?

This guidance will assist countrieswith their implementation of risk assessment requirements.

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