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An effort is made to consider all applicable variables when estimating human risk. An interdisciplinary team, consisting of a toxicologist, a chemist, and an exposure specialist, is assigned to each pesticide risk assessment project. This team characterizes the human exposure scenarios encountered with their pesticide, then selects toxic end points and NOAELs that will be used for short-term (1–30 days), intermediate-term (1–6 months), and long-term (longer than 6 months) inhalation risk assessments.
From subchronic to chronic exposure) UFL, extrapolation from a LOAEL rather than from a NOAEL UFD, incompleteness of the database. 2 UFA—Interspecies Extrapolation This UF is applied to account for the extrapolation of laboratory animal data to humans. indd 21 11/15/2005 5:48:49 PM 22 Inhalation Toxicology 10, equally partitioned between these components. , Renwick and Lazarus, 1998), allows for the strategy of reducing this uncertainty by addressing either of these components with information.
2 The Fundamentals of the Process The fundamental methodology for derivation of an RfC has been built on established practices of risk assessment used both by the risk assessment community, in general, and by the Agency, and is exemplified by the generalized equation: Health guideline value ϭ point of departure Ϭ (uncertainty or variability) For the Agency, the health guideline value is the route-specific inhalation RfC, for which the unit is an air concentration in mg/m3. The POD is the level of inhalation exposure, also in mg/m3, associated with any of a variety of health effect end point values identified from toxicological studies in either animals or humans.
