The term “risk communication is commonly used to describe procedures by which a public agency or other party possessing information about the hazardous attributes of an activity or product transfers this information to others. For several decades, the Freedom of Information and National Environmental Policy Acts have, in effect, provided for...
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- Publication Date: September 28, 2011
- Tags: Environment, Environmental Law, Material Safety Data Sheets, Right to Know Act, Risk Communication, Science, Worker Health and Safety
- Publication Date: September 28, 2011
- Tags: Adjudication, Congress, Enforcement, Science
The Re-registration Process
The re-registration of existing pesticides under contemporary risk assessment standards, and the removal of unacceptable pesticides from the marketplace, are examples where procedures can hinder the agency’s...
- Publication Date: February 28, 2012
- Tags: Advisory Committees, Cancer, Carcinogens, Interagency Coordination, Public Participation, Risk Assessment, Science
The following recommendations broadly address the procedures by which federal agencies identify, evaluate, and regulate substances that pose a potential risk of human cancer. For many years these regulatory activities have been among the most controversial engaged in by federal agencies. They implicate important health and economic values and...
- Publication Date: December 20, 2012
- Tags: Congress, Public Health Service Act, Science, Settlements, Teleconferences, Vaccine Injury Compensation
The Program, which became effective October 1, 1988, is unique among federal benefit programs in its organizational structure and decision-making processes. It was intended to provide an alternative to the tort system for dealing with claims of vaccine-related injury, awarding compensation quickly, fairly, and efficiently. It was also intended to...
- Publication Date: December 27, 2012
- Tags: Biotechnology, Confidential Business Information (CBI), Congress, Interagency Coordination, Risk Assessment, Science
New biotechnology techniques promise great benefits in fields such as medicine, agriculture, and manufacturing. However, these new techniques, which involve alteration of the genetic structure of an organism, have raised concerns that some new organisms or products may be dangerous to individuals or detrimental to the environment. This...
- Committees: Regulation
- Publication Date: December 31, 2012
- Tags: Science
- Committees: Regulation
- Publication Date: December 31, 2012
- Tags: Science
- Committees: Regulation
- Publication Date: December 31, 2012
- Tags: Science
- Committees: Regulation
- Publication Date: December 31, 2012
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- Committees: Regulation
- Publication Date: December 31, 2012
- Tags: Science