Risk ranking

The following sections review the literature for these methods and clarify the objectives of the research. [...] One of the findings of this undertaking was that “comparative risk projects are not considered classical science endeavors” and that the rankers were aware of the uncertainties and lack of credible data available. [...] The increased knowledge of a hazard could have been offset by the bias of being involved in the technical dealings of the agency. [...] Risk summary sheets were not only a summary of the available information on the risk, including the categorization and the attributes, factors such as the known science about a risk were also given. [...] Other ranking methods were described in Hansen’s paper, but the advantage of the EURAM method is that it contained a comprehensive database for the assessment of the more than 100,000 chemicals in the EU market.