Comparability of human and ecological risk assessments

Introduction

“…The major similarity is their agreement that protection of human beings through HHRA does not guarantee protection of the ecosystem. The major implication of this is that HHRA and ERA often do not yield comparable risk management conclusions (Suedel et al, 1995).…”

“…This paper serves to introduce five invited commentaries on the subject of the comparability of human health risk assessments (HHRA) and ecological risk assessments (ERA): Feijtel and Lally (1995); Suedel et al (1995); Hull, Suter, and Barnthouse (1995); Landis, Matthews, and Matthews (1995); and McCarty and Power (1995). As usual, we welcome Letters to the Editor providing additional commentary and, after appropriate review, will publish at least some of these in the next issue of the journal.…”