Risk Management: Ecological Risk-Based Decision-Making

Risk assessors from the private and public sectors discussed and debated for two years before coming together at a June 1997 workshop in Williamsburg, Virginia under the auspices of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry to compile a set of scientific guidelines for assessing toxicological risk that they hope will become standard among scientists and regulators. They cite a number of case studies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)