Studies from Environmental Laboratory Yield New Information about Risk Management (Advances on a Decision Analytic Approach to Exposure-Based…

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Studies from Environmental Laboratory Yield New Information about Risk Management (Advances on a Decision Analytic Approach to Exposure-Based Chemical Prioritization)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Investigators publish new report on Risk Management. According to news reporting out of Concord, Massachusetts, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "The volume and variety of manufactured chemicals is increasing, although little is known about the risks associated with the frequency and extent of human exposure to most chemicals. The EPA and the recent signing of the Lautenberg Act have both signaled the need for high-throughput methods to characterize and screen chemicals based on exposure potential, such that more comprehensive toxicity research can be informed."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Environmental Laboratory, "Prior work of Mitchell et?al. using multicriteria decision analysis tools to prioritize chemicals for further research is enhanced here, resulting in a high-level chemical prioritization tool for risk-based screening. Reliable exposure information is a key gap in currently available engineering analytics to support predictive environmental and health risk assessments. An elicitation with 32 experts informed relative prioritization of risks from chemical properties and human use factors, and the values for each chemical associated with each metric were approximated with data from EPA's CP_CAT database. Three different versions of the model were evaluated using distinct weight profiles, resulting in three different ranked chemical prioritizations with only a small degree of variation across weight profiles."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Future work will aim to include greater input from human factors experts and better define qualitative metrics."

For more information on this research see: Advances on a Decision Analytic Approach to Exposure-Based Chemical Prioritization. Risk Analysis, 2018;():. (Wiley-Blackwell - www.wiley.com/; Risk Analysis - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1539-6924)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting M.D. Wood, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Environmental Laboratory, Concord, MA, United States. Additional authors for this research include K. Plourde, S. Larkin, P.P. Egeghy, A.J. Williams, V. Zemba, I. Linkov and D.A Vallero.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13001. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Concord, Chemicals, Massachusetts, United States, Risk Management, Risk and Prevention, North and Central America.