A Class Approach to Hazard Assessment of Organohalogen Flame Retardants (2019) / Chapter Skim
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Over the last decade, the National Academies is "toxic" as defined in the FHSA and, if so, to conduct a and others have identified three main problems with that quantitative risk assessment that considers dose–response approach. relationships, bioavailability, and exposure to determine whether the chemical is a "hazardous substance" under • Chemicals on which data are insufficient are often the FHSA.2 The petition was unique in that it requested deemed not hazardous.
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The movement toward a class ap- CPSC request included experts in toxicology, epidemiolproach to hazard or risk assessment provides the basis of ogy, pharmacology, computational toxicology and chemthe petition submitted to CPSC to ban OFRs. istry, and risk assessment.
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To that end, CPSC needs the hazard assessment plan as envisioned by the National Academies, when executed, to be able to be readily integrated with a separate quantitative exposure assessment to complete a hu man health risk assessment. The ultimate CPSC goal is to assess the risk to human health posed by exposure to any OFR from the four categories of consumer products.
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2008. Phthalates and Cumulative Risk Assessment: requesting rulemaking on certain products containing The Tasks Ahead.
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