EESA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: International Agency For Research On Cancer, Food Industry, Reference Dose
2 Apr 2017
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Or probability of suffering harm from a hazard. How possible or how likely something is to happen. Contaminants, receptors, and exposure pathways are risk together. Hep identify risks that are easily reduced or eliminated. Help clarified what is known and not known about situation. Health canada- regulation for foods and drugs. Canada council of ministers of the environment: national contaminated site program, Ontario ministry of environment: site specific clean up guidelines for contaminated soils. Further information goes intro quantitative analysis in comparison express in numbers exposure and effects, and from there relationship and risk: problem definition purpose. Complex mixture with a few compounds driving toxicity. Organism species or groups of species exposed to stressor. Average person, age, gender: average & worst case, sensitive subpopulation (recent interest in children) this kind of worst case scenario most harmful because children are more vulnerable we are more worried. Determine environmental fate that results in exposure to receptor.
