ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2021
Environmental Health Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: A Visual Overview and a Renewed Call for Coordination.
Article in Environmental science & technology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Implementation: How the Amended Law Has Failed to Protect Vulnerable Populations from Toxic Chemicals in the United States.Environmental science & technology · 2022Pooled it
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- Development of the toxicity values database, ToxValDB: A curated resource for experimental and derived human health-relevant toxicity data.Computational toxicology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Integrating chemical-specific information with general approaches to assessing exposure measurement bias in systematic reviews.Environment international · 2025Article
- A Perspective from US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Scientists: How Your Epidemiologic Analyses Can Inform the Human Health Risk Assessment Process.Environmental health perspectives · 2025Article
- Outcomes of the Halliburton Loophole: Chemicals regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act in US fracking disclosures, 2014-2021.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2023Article
- A science-based agenda for health-protective chemical assessments and decisions: overview and consensus statement.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2023Article
- Time to Break the "Lock-In" Impediments to Chemicals Management.Environmental science & technology · 2022Article
- Practical Opportunities to Improve the Impact of Health Risk Assessment on Environmental and Public Health Decisions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- U.S. Federal Agency interests and key considerations for new approach methodologies for nanomaterials.ALTEX · 2022Article
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Abstract
In the United States (U.S.), chemical evaluations and assessments are conducted by seven federal agencies responding to distinct statutory requirements and focusing on different exposure scenarios. While risk assessment is a fundamental concept in public health practice and policy, there is no clear, central, and concise summary of these processes. The novel infographic presented here depicts more than 30 different evaluation and assessment processes conducted by federal agencies for chemicals found in the environment, workplace, consumer products, hazardous waste sites, food, and/or cosmetics. The majority of these assessments are statutorily required. Most serve as sources of authoritative information to provide public health guidance or recommendations. Less than half directly result in risk management actions or regulations. Understanding these roles and processes can facilitate engagement from the broader community, including by highlighting priority areas for research to inform public health policy. This infographic also illustrates the opportunity and need for further intra- and interagency collaboration and coordination - including a particular focus on aggregate risk assessment, given that the population regularly experiences exposures from multiple sources crossing agency domains.
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