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Chemical Health Effects Assessment Methodology for airborne contaminants
H S Brown1, C R West, D R Bishop
1Environment Technology, and Society Program, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610.
Risk Analysis : an Official Publication of the Society for Risk Analysis
|September 1, 1987
Abstract:
Chemical Health Effects Assessment Methodology (CHEM) is a new procedure for assessing hazardous properties of airborne toxic contaminants. CHEM evaluates substances for four major health effect categories: carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, reproductive/developmental toxicity, and toxic effects other than the first three. Three elements are considered in the assessment: weight of evidence, potency, and severity of effect. This approach produces a profile of toxic properties of chemicals which preserves their unique multidimensional character and highlights data gaps.