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Publications - External Review Drafts
Risk Assessment Forum
The documents listed below are current draft documents produced by the Risk Assessment Forum awaiting publication as a final document.
- Benchmark Dose Technical Guidance Document (External Review Draft) This draft document provides guidance on the application of the benchmark dose approach in determining the point of departure for health effects data.
- Dioxin Toxicity Equivalency Factors (TEFs) for Human Health (External Review Draft). This document describes EPA's updated approach for evaluating the human health risks from exposures to environmental media containing dioxin-like compounds.
- Framework for Human Health Risk Assessment to Inform Decision Making This document describes a Framework for conducting human health risk assessments that are responsive to the needs of decision making processes at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Framework is intended to foster increased implementation of existing agency guidance for conducting human health risk assessments and to improve the utility of risk assessment in the decision making process.
- Framework for Determining a Mutagenic Mode of Action for Carcinogenicity (External Review Draft). A draft document to help EPA risk assessors determine whether data support a finding of a mutagenic mode of action (MOA) for carcinogenicity.
- Guideline for Microbial Risk Assessment: Pathogenic Microorganisms with Focus on Food and Water
- Microbial Risk Assessment Guideline. This document provides guidance on conducting risk assessments on potentially pathogenic microorganisms in water and food.
- Microbial Risk Assessment Guideline (External Review Draft). This document provides guidance on conducting risk assessments on potentially pathogenic microorganisms in water and food.
- Probabilistic Methods to Enhance the Role of Risk Analysis in Decision-Making (External Review Draft). The intended goal of these two draft white papers is to describe potential and actual uses of probabilistic tools in the risk decision-making process.