Re: FGR-13

[erollins <erollins@southconn.com>]

BKellyiem wrote:
> 
> Mr. Coleman
> 
> This may be a nit, but the EPA in the evaluation of risks focuses on cancer
> morbidity (i.e., incidence) rather than mortality (i.e., death) as their
> endpoint of concern.  All of the HEAST factors relate to the risk of causing
> cancer and not dying from it.
> 
> Brian Kelly
> bakelly@iem-inc.com
That was my belief untill last week when I was informed by an expert on
the subject that the risk factors generally refer to morbidity for
contaminants where human data is not available.  However, where human
data is available, the risk factor generally refers to cancer
mortality.  This is because most of the human data was gathered from
death certificates.

If this is not true, please tell me what the case actually is.

Thanks

Eugene Rollins, CHP
erollins@southconn.com