Toxicology in Risk Assessment (Hardcover)

Preface; 1. A Window of Opportunity for Toxicology; 2. The Evolving Principles of Risk Analysis; 3. How to Communicate Risk in a Low Trust/High Concern Environment; 4. Values and Ethical Choices that Underlie Toxicologic and Risk-Analysis Decisions; 5. Improving the Risk Assessment Process; 6. Improving Risk Characterization at the US Environmental Protection Agency; 7. Multiple Factors in Risk Assessment; 8. Environmental Factors Modifying Sensitivity to Chemicals; 9. Animal Model of Chemical Sensitivity Involving Cholinergic Agents; 10. Application of Chemical Hormesis Concept to Risk Assessment: Reproductive Toxicity as an Example; 11. Trends in Toxicology Modeling for Risk Assessment; 12. Overview of Environmental Decision-Support Software; 13. Application of Risk-Assessment Techniques to Military Deployments: Operation Desert Storm, Operation Joint Endeavor, Operation Desert Focus; 14. Application of Risk-Assessment Techniques to Military Scenarios: Multipathway Exposure Assessment for Chemical Agent Incinerators; 15. A Drinking Water Advisory: Consumer Acceptability Advice and Health Effects Analysis on Methyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether; 16. Arsenic: Moving Toward a Regulation; 17. The Evolution of Health-Risk Assessment: Trichloroethylene as a Case Study; 18. History of Methylene Chloride in Consumer Products: Tracing Scientific Knowledge, Regulations, and Perceptions; 19. Risk Assessment and Risk Management in Regulatory Decision Making: Recommendations of the Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management; 20. Risk Assessment and Risk Management: Pathways Toward Process Enhancement