As described in Chapter 4, risk assessment is an important analytic tool used to evaluate the effects of environmental stressors on ecosystem and human health. This tool has been applied over the past ...

Chemical regulations exist to safeguard human and environmental health throughout a substance’s life cycle (sourcing, manufacture, intended use phase, and disposal). Regulatory decisions require ...

The causative agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. To date, the virus ...

Industrial chemicals are essential to modern society, supporting products ranging from plastics and electronics to pharmaceuticals and agricultural ...

Researchers used four different types of port environments to investigate the levels of contaminants emitted from five different sources. They found that the combined emissions of metals and ...

Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Environmental Chemicals, the Human Microbiome, and Health Risk ...

Please define the meaning of “risk” from the perspective of environmental monitoring. Risk assessment consists of the identification of hazards and the analysis and evaluation of risks associated with ...

A UCLA report underscores some of the critical gaps in pesticide law and the opportunity to strengthen cumulative impact ...

Evidence of environmental risk factors’ negative impact on heart health has greatly increased, leading to several cardiology societies to issue a joint statement encouraging regulations to reduce risk ...