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EPA risk assessments undergo external peer review by individuals or organizations that are independent of those who prepared the risk assessment. FACA committees, such as the Science Advisory Board, regularly conduct this external peer review. The following questions relate to this type of peer review. |
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Has external peer review of the human health risk assessments prepared by your office within the last 5 years (since January 2001) had the following effects? |
| Definitely yes | Probably yes | Probably no | Definitely no | No answer | ||
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Improved the overall quality of risk assessments | |||||
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Ensured that the science used in risk assessments is appropriately characterized | |||||
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Helped achieve agency-wide consensus on difficult and controversial risk assessment issues | |||||
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Helped advance the use of new scientific methods or models | |||||
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Improved the consistency of applying guidance related to risk assessment | |||||
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Helped EPA produce risk assessments that are more defensible | |||||
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Other effect of peer review | |||||
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If you answered "Other" for 32, please explain. | |
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