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. 2012 Jan 26;9(2):370–390. doi: 10.3390/ijerph9020370

Table 2.

Selected U.S. Milestones in the Evolution of Cumulative Risk Assessment for Health Effects from Exposure to a Combination of Chemical and Nonchemical Stressors.

Year Milestone Reference(s)
1997 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Science Policy Council): Guidance on Cumulative Risk Assessment [54]
1997 Council on Environmental Quality (Executive Office of the President): Considering Cumulative Effects under the NEPA [55]
2003 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency: Framework for Cumulative Risk Assessment [3]
2004 National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC): Ensuring Risk Reduction in Communities with Multiple Stressors [15]
2007 Environmental Health Perspectives: collection of articles on cumulative risk assessment approaches [4,7,61,62,63]
2009 National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences: Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment [2]
2009 New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection: A Preliminary Screening Method to Estimate Cumulative Environmental Impacts [26]
2010 California Environmental Protection Agency: Cumulative Impacts: Building a Scientific Foundation [27]
2010 National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC): Nationally Consistent Environmental Justice Screening Approaches [28]
2010 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology: collection of articles on cumulative risk assessment methods [64,65,66]
2011 International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health: collection of articles on cumulative health risk assessment [22,23,29,67,68,69,70,71]
2011 International Life Sciences Institute, Risk Assessment in the 21st Century (RISK21) Project, Cumulative Risk Project Area [72]