Training Course on Environmental & Health Risk As- Sessment and Risk Management of Toxic Chemicals
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World Health Organization’s International Programme on Chemical Safety. Throughout the course, the lectures explaining the theoretical concepts and principles of hazard identification, doseresponse assessment, environmental risk assessment and risk management and reduction were supported by practical examples which included dietary risk assessment cases, air pollution, cancer risk assessment cases, dioxins, and the setting and enforcement of environmental health standards. The course was supported by the United Nations Development Programme and attended by participants from 14 countries.
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