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Risk assessment may be viewed as the integration of comprehensive health and environmental studies for the estimation of human health risk. There is increasing impetus to use risk assessment to set priorities for research needs in health and environmental areas as well as to provide the best quantification of risk based on available data. Any general risk assessment methodology includes two components: measurement or estimation of exposure, and estimation of exposure-response relationships. These two components are usually called exposure assessment and health effects assessment.
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Dudney, C.S., Walsh, P.J., Jones, T.D., Calle, E.E., Griffin, G.D. (1983). On the use of Relative Toxicity for Risk Estimation. In: Waters, M.D., Sandhu, S.S., Lewtas, J., Claxton, L., Chernoff, N., Nesnow, S. (eds) Short-Term Bioassays in the Analysis of Complex Environmental Mixtures III. Environmental Science Research, vol 27. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3611-2_33
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