Download or read book Biomonitoring: EPA Could Make Better Use of Biomonitoring Data written by John Stephenson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biomonitoring (BM), which measures chemicals (CH) in people's tissues, has shown that the U.S. population is widely exposed to CH used in everyday products. The EPA is authorized to control CH that pose unreasonable health risks. One crucial tool in this process is chemical risk assessment, which involves determining the extent to which populations will be exposed to a chemical and assessing how this exposure affects human health This testimony reviews the: (1) extent to which EPA incorp. info. from BM studies into its assessments of CH; (2) steps that EPA has taken to improve the usefulness of BM data; and (3) extent to which EPA has the authority to require chemical co. to submit BM data to EPA. This is a print on demand report.