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Connections between IRIS Assessments, Risk Assessment and Risk Management

The Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) is an environmental assessment program operated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Initially, in the 1980s, the program established a database of human health assessments about the impacts of chemicals in the environment. EPA created the database to provide a consistent approach to risk assessment practices across the various environmental laws that the Agency implemented and enforced. The IRIS program is focused on risk assessment, and not risk management (those decision processes involving analysis of regulatory, legal, social and economic considerations related to the risks being studied).[1]

References

  1. ^ "Basic Information about the Integrated Risk Information System". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2019-09-30.
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