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EPA's Risk Assessment Process for Tolerance Reassessment

This document describes in plain language the process EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs follows in conducting human health risk assessments in support of tolerance reassessment.

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EPA’s Risk Assessment Process For Tolerance Reassessment: Staff Paper #44 (PDF)(15 pp, 345 K)