HORMESIS IN REGULATORY RISK ASSESSMENT - SCIENCE AND SCIENCE POLICY

作者：Gray George^*

来源：Dose-Response, 2011, 9(2): 158-164.

DOI：10.2203/dose-response.10-032.Gray

• Science Policy
• Risk Assessment
• Hormesis

This brief commentary will argue that whether hormesis is considered in regulatory risk assessment is a matter less of science than of science policy. I will first discuss the distinction between science and science policy and their roles in regulatory risk assessment. Then I will focus on factors that influence science policy, especially as it relates to the conduct of risk assessments to inform regulatory decisions, with a focus on the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The key questions will then be how does hormesis interact with current concepts of science and science policy for risk assessment? Finally, I look ahead to factors that may increase, or decrease, the likelihood of hormesis being incorporated into regulatory risk assessment.

• 出版日期2011