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Our Insight page is your go-to resource for the latest thought leadership on REACH and its requirements, along with related health and environmental risk assessment research and applications:
Featured Articles and Reports
ICF Presentations and Posters at the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, December 8–10, 2008, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Development of a Screening-level Fate and Transport and Fish Bioaccumulation Model for Minnesota Ecosystems
Presentation by Andrew Shapiro, ICF International. ICF assisted the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) in developing a screening tool for evaluating the bioaccumulation of persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals in aquatic ecosystems use in MPCA’s air emissions risk assessment process. The Microsoft Excel-based Fish Pollutant Accumulation Spreadsheet System (F-PASS) combines two models within a user-friendly structure: a fate and transport model based on the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol that calculates chemical concentrations in surface water, and Arnot and Gobas’ aquatic bioaccumulation model, AQUAWEB. F-PASS requires a minimal number of user-specified inputs to facilitate quick screening analyses of air emissions. More refined site-specific assessments also can be conducted if additional data are available.
- Development and Demonstration of the Risk and Technology Review Multimedia Human Exposure and Risk Calculator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Poster by Josh Cleland, ICF International. Working with EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, ICF developed an advanced, yet easy-to-use, model for estimating exposure and risk from multiple ingestion sources, including breast milk. This tool, the Multimedia Ingestion Risk Calculator, was developed to support EPA’s Risk and Technology Review assessments for sources of hazardous air pollutants.
- The MIASMA Model for Exposure to Indoor Emissions Sources
Poster by Cara Henning, et al., ICF International. ICF created the Mass-Balance Indoor Air Source Modeling Application (MIASMA) to develop exposure concentration distributions for common indoor air emission sources. The model is a user-friendly, flexible tool specifically designed to create distributions for use in the EPA’s Hazardous Air Pollution Exposure Model used in EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessments, but the model can be applied in other exposure modeling contexts.
- Development of De Minimis Emission Rates for Screening Ingestion Exposures to Persistent and Bioaccumulative Hazardous Air Pollutants
Presentation by David Burch, ICF International. To assist the EPA in the evaluation of multipathway human health risks from hazardous air pollutants, ICF has developed an efficient method for quantitatively screening emissions of persistent and bioaccumulative air toxics. The approach uses de minimis emission thresholds derived for a hypothetical exposure scenario from environmental modeling results from TRIM.FaTE, EPA’s chemical mass-balanced compartment model, Multimedia Ingestion Risk Calculator, and an ingestion exposure model. The screening method is being used to support EPA’s residual risk assessments conducted for industrial point sources of air toxics.
ICF Presentations/Technical Posters at Other Conferences
- Incorporation of the Infant Breast Milk Exposure Pathway into an Exposure and Risk Assessment Model
Poster presentation by Elizabeth Dederick, Ph.D., et al., at the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology and the International Society for Exposure Science Joint Annual Conference, October 2008, Pasadena, California, USA.
- Risk Assessment Provisions of REACH
Presentation by Baxter Jones to the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s Risk Assessment Symposium, September 2004, Montreal, Canada.
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