Impacts of the Red Book

Abstract

With the publication by the National Research Council of Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process (called the Red Book) we crossed a border on the route to a better understanding of the challenges of determining the potential adverse health effects resulting from human exposure to hazardous agents or situations. In the process the Red Book has had concrete and far-reaching consequences, a subset of which is reviewed in this essay.

Keywords:

• risk assessment
• risk management
• Red Book
• EPA
• National Research Council.