Hart, Ronald

A Myrlck Freeman, Bowdoln College, Brunswick, Maine Ronald W. Hart, National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, Arkansas... 

Communication of the realistic hazards of pesticides to the general public has been more difficult. Dr. Ronald Hart s statement that risk assessment techniques must be upgraded to use them more effectively, is an illustration. The approach using several orders of magnitude difference in numerical risk assessments simply is untenable when one tries to apply this in practice and communicate the idea to the public. Clearly, the techniques of risk... 

We thank Dr. Deborah McClellan for superb editorial assistance and Dr. Brian Collins, Dr. Yoshitaka Ichikawa, Dr. Ronald Schnaar and Dr. Gerald Hart for their comments and suggestions that greatly contributed to this chapter. Dr. E. T. A. Marques Jr. is supported by CAPES grant 1219/94-2 and NIH grant R37AI19217. 

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