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Science 28 August 2009:
Vol. 325. no. 5944, pp. 1075 - 1076
DOI: 10.1126/science.1175150
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Risk Analysis:

Five "Easy" Questions

Garry D. Brewer

Science and Decisions Advancing Risk Assessment by the National Research Council. Committee on Improving Risk Analysis Approaches Used by the U.S. EPA National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2009. 421 pp. Paper, $54.95. ISBN 9780309120463. www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12209

This NRC report suggests approaches to overcoming obstacles to effective risk assessment such as lengthy delays in evaluating complex problems, substantial uncertainties that arise from the lack of data, the backlog of chemicals that have not been evaluated, and the continuing development of new materials requiring study.

The reviewer is at the School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520–8200, USA.

E-mail: Garry.Brewer{at}yale.edu

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