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The impact of a toxic substance on public health depends upon its inherent toxicity, the size and location of the source term, its behavior once released to the environment, the number and type of exposure pathways, and the susceptibility of the exposed population. Because the process of quantifying impact through this sequence of events is inherently uncertain, we refer to the estimated impact using the concept risk. Thus, regulating toxic risks requires consideration of the source, chemical fate, exposure routes, human susceptibility and combined health effects of an ever-increasing list of chemicals. The very magnitude of this list precludes a detailed assessment of each chemical of concern. For this reason there is a demand for comprehensive but not necessarily precise models for quantifying human exposure. Multimedia transport models fill this demand, As Herman Daly (1980) notes, “[i]t is better to deal incompletely with the whole than wholly with the incomplete.”
Work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract W-7405-ENG-48.
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McKone, T.E., Kastenberg, W.E. (1986). Application of Multimedia Pollutant Transport Models to Risk Analysis. In: Cohen, Y. (eds) Pollutants in a Multimedia Environment. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2243-6_9
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