Author Question: A new food preservative has been discovered, and the company that makes it needs to determine if it ... (Read 26 times)

meagbuch · **on:** Jul 16, 2018

A new food preservative has been discovered, and the company that makes it needs to determine if it poses any health risk. Experiments are planned to test the effects of the new preservative on mice. These experiments represent a type of

A) respiratory assessment.
B) chemical identification.
C) hazard assessment.
D) risk characterization.

Question 2

When the EPA began risk assessment in the mid-1970s, it was primarily concerned with

A) the safety of public transportation systems.
B) interactions between people and wildlife in national parks.
C) cancer risks associated with pesticides and toxic chemicals.
D) accidents associated with lost time on the job and workers' compensation.