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Exposure Assessment Glossaries

Below is a list of glossaries related to exposure and risk assessment used to describe terminology used throughout the EPA ExpoBox toolbox:​

  • Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Glossary
  • ​IPCS Risk Assessment Terminology(PDF) (122 pp, 950 K, About PDF)
  • Risk Assessment Glossary
  • Terminology Services: Terms and Acronyms
  • USGS water basics glossary
  • USGS Dictionary of Water Terms
  • USGS national water quality assessment program glossary of terms
  • Exposure Factors Handbook

EPA ExpoBox

  • Basic Information
  • Approaches
    • - Direct Measurement
    • - Exposure Reconstruction
    • - Indirect Estimation
  • Media
    • - Air
    • - Aquatic Biota
    • - Consumer Products
    • - Food
    • - Soil and Dust
    • - Water and Sediment
  • Routes
    • - Dermal
    • - Ingestion
    • - Inhalation
  • Tiers and Types
    • - Aggregate and Cumulative
    • - Deterministic and Probabilistic
    • - Screening-Level and Refined
  • Lifestages and Populations
    • - General Population
    • - Highly Exposed
    • - Lifestages
    • - Occupational Workers
    • - Residential Consumers
  • Chemical Classes
    • - Inorganics and Fibers
    • - Nanomaterials
    • - Other Organics
    • - Pesticides
  • Toolbox Search
  • Exposure Factors
  • Tutorials
  • Glossaries
  • Unit Conversion
  • Uncertainty and Variability
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Last updated on December 27, 2024
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