What risk?

Whether the public or the environment is at risk is a commonly discussed question in numerous areas of public life, most recently and publicly with regard to issues like BSE, passive smoking and the dangers from pesticides in food production. It is therefore of great importance for everyone concerned with these issues - both policy makers and the public who may be subject to their decisions - to understand the basis on which 'risk' policy is made. The principle objective of this book is to highlight the uncertainties inherent in 'scientific' estimates of risk to the public and the environment.

Front Cover; What Risk?; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Executive summary; Acknowledgements; Biographies; PART I: Methodology; CHAPTER 1. Thresholds for carcinogens: a review of the relevant science and its implications for regulatory policy; Summary; Introduction; The meaning of threshold and current applicationto policy; The scientific case for a no-threshold assumption; Scientific evidence for the existence of athreshold; Implications for policy; Some science policy issues; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Appendix: How science contributes topolicy formation

A medical language exists and must be respected. Speaking more generally we must avoidpublishing in medicine that which is medicalnonsense. Rejection of 'everything goes' is a pressing necessity in chronic human very low dose toxicology; Acknowledgements; References and bibliography; PART II: Science; CHAPTER 4. Benzene and Leukaemia; Summary; Introduction; Industrial use of benzene; Health effects: acute exposure; Health effects: chronic exposure; Leukaemia; The link between benzene exposure and leukaemia; Regulation of benzene; Quantitative risk assessment (QRA); The US process of QRA

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