Rethink chemical risk assessments

George M. Gray () and Joshua T. Cohen ()
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George M. Gray: George M. Gray is director of the Center for Risk Science and Public Health at George Washington University, Washington DC 20037, USA. In 2005–09, he was assistant administrator to the EPA Office of Research and Development and EPA science adviser.
Joshua T. Cohen: Joshua T. Cohen is deputy director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 02111, USA. He served on the National Academies committees that reviewed the EPA's dioxin risk assessment in 2006 and its risk-assessment methodologies in 2009.

Nature, 2012, vol. 489, issue 7414, 27-28

Abstract: The US Environmental Protection Agency needs to speed up its risk analyses and address uncertainty, say George M. Gray and Joshua T. Cohen.

Date: 2012
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