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Carol N. Scott. Executive Director of the Committee to Coordinate Environmental Health and Related Programs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, speaking from the perspective of the public policy analyst, noted that in an ideal political and social climate a risk assessment should, in advance of a crisis, present to knowledgeable risk managers a quantitative risk assessment which expresses all of the uncertainties incorporated in the assumptions. However, too often the crisis occurs first, and the public-press-politician synergistic relationship takes over, as in the case of the ethylene dibromide situation, or someone leaks misinformation to the press, as in the case of Alar, or politics takes over, as in the case of the controversy over the appropriate ways to use and regulate biotechnology. 

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