Risk Assessment and Human Health
There are many resources that provide health risk information. The National Library of Medicine provides risk assessment and regulation information tools for a varied audience. These include TOXNET (databases on hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases), the Household Products Database (potential health effects of chemicals in over 10,000 common household products), and TOXMAP (maps of US Environmental Agency Superfund and Toxics Release Inventory data). The United States Environmental Protection Agency provides basic information about environmental risk assessments for the public.
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