ENSC 201 Lecture 4: Risk Assessment and Regulation
23 Jan 2019
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Important tool for screening and environmental risk assessment: gull eggs and organic contaminants in great lakes. Summary: toxicity testing to define dose-response relationships, challenges and complexity- single compound exposures are the exception, not the rule, need to communicate hazards (public and regulators, new key terms. The environmental movement: rachel carson"s silent spring (1962), exposed the hazards of pesticide (ddt) and catalyzed public rejection of ddt. " regulation is a principle, rule or condition that governs the behaviour of citizens and organizations. Governments use regulation in combination with other instruments to achieve public policy objectives. Regulations are a form of law- they have force of law and usually set out rules that apply generally, rather than to specific persons or situations. " Government of canada: regulation impacts virtually every aspect of our lives. Ideally information from scientific research will guide regulation. Social and economic factors can also influence regulation: goal: to establish safe limits!
