Q32. 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 (percent) |
Probably yes (percent) |
Probably no (percent) |
Definitely no (percent) |
No answer (percent) |
Number of respondents |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a. Improved the overall quality of risk assessments | 34.8 | 47.5 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 13.6 | 221 |
| b. Ensured that the science used in risk assessments is appropriately characterized | 35.9 | 43.6 | 5.9 | 0.9 | 13.6 | 220 |
| c. Helped achieve agency-wide consensus on difficult and controversial risk assessment issues | 25.0 | 37.7 | 17.7 | 1.8 | 17.7 | 220 |
| d. Helped advance the use of new scientific methods or models | 32.4 | 38.8 | 12.8 | 0.5 | 15.5 | 219 |
| e. Improved the consistency of applying guidance related to risk assessment | 18.8 | 42.7 | 21.6 | 1.4 | 15.6 | 218 |
| f. Helped EPA produce risk assessments that are more defensible | 41.4 | 40.0 | 4.5 | 0.5 | 13.6 | 220 |
| g. Other effect of peer review | 13.8 | 7.2 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 76.3 | 152 |