Perchloroethylene , case study

This paper will summarize briefly some work my colleagues and I at Decision Focus Incorporated have carried out for EPA to show how decision analysis might be used to assist decision making under TSCA ( 5). I will first briefly review the concepts of quantitative risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis to show how decision analysis fits with these concepts and provides a natural way of extending them. Then I will illustrate the approach using a case study on a specific chemical, perchloroethylene. 

P. H. Fluckiger, The use of life-cycle assessment and product risk assessment unthin application development of chemicals, a case study of perchloroethylene use in dry cleaning, PhD thesis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, 1999. 

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