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Exposure assessment, the Glossary

Exposure assessment is a branch of environmental science and occupational hygiene that focuses on the processes that take place at the interface between the environment containing the contaminant of interest and the organism being considered.^[1]

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Adverse effect

An adverse effect is an undesired harmful effect resulting from a medication or other intervention, such as surgery.

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Arithmetic mean

In mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean, arithmetic average, or just the mean or average (when the context is clear) is the sum of a collection of numbers divided by the count of numbers in the collection.

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Average

In ordinary language, an average is a single number or value that best represents a set of data.

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Behavior

Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems or artificial entities in some environment.

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Biomarker

In biomedical contexts, a biomarker, or biological marker, is a measurable indicator of some biological state or condition.

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Biomarkers of exposure assessment

Biomarkers in analytical chemistry and in environmental science are chemicals, metabolites, susceptibility characteristics, or changes in the body that relate to the exposure of an organism to a chemical. Exposure assessment and Biomarkers of exposure assessment are environmental chemistry.

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Biomonitoring

In analytical chemistry, biomonitoring is the measurement of the body burden of toxic chemical compounds, elements, or their metabolites, in biological substances. Exposure assessment and biomonitoring are environmental chemistry.

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Central tendency

In statistics, a central tendency (or measure of central tendency) is a central or typical value for a probability distribution.

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Contamination

Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that renders something unsuitable, unfit or harmful for physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc.

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Descriptive statistics

A descriptive statistic (in the count noun sense) is a summary statistic that quantitatively describes or summarizes features from a collection of information, while descriptive statistics (in the mass noun sense) is the process of using and analysing those statistics.

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Dose (biochemistry)

A dose is a measured quantity of a medicine, nutrient, or pathogen which is delivered as a unit. Exposure assessment and dose (biochemistry) are Toxicology.

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Eating

Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food.

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Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.

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Environmental science

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, meteorology, mathematics and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geography, and atmospheric science) to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems.

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Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population.

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Food sampling

Food sampling is a process used to check that a food is safe and that it does not contain harmful contaminants, or that it contains only permitted additives at acceptable levels, or that it contains the right levels of key ingredients and its label declarations are correct, or to know the levels of nutrients present.

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Function (biology)

In evolutionary biology, function is the reason some object or process occurred in a system that evolved through natural selection.

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Geometric mean

In mathematics, the geometric mean is a mean or average which indicates a central tendency of a finite set of real numbers by using the product of their values (as opposed to the arithmetic mean which uses their sum).

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Health

Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time.

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Human variability

Human variability, or human variation, is the range of possible values for any characteristic, physical or mental, of human beings.

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Inhalation exposure

Inhalation is a major route of exposure that occurs when an individual breathes in polluted air which enters the respiratory tract. Exposure assessment and Inhalation exposure are occupational safety and health.

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Majority

A majority is more than half of a total.

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Mathematical exposure modeling

Mathematical exposure modeling is an indirect method of determining exposure, particularly for human exposure to environmental contaminants.

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The median of a set of numbers is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution.

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Monte Carlo integration

In mathematics, Monte Carlo integration is a technique for numerical integration using random numbers.

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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the United States federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness.

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Natural environment

The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.

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Occupational exposure banding

Occupational exposure banding, also known as hazard banding, is a process intended to quickly and accurately assign chemicals into specific categories (bands), each corresponding to a range of exposure concentrations designed to protect worker health. Exposure assessment and Occupational exposure banding are industrial hygiene and occupational safety and health.

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Occupational hazard

An occupational hazard is a hazard experienced in the workplace.

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Occupational hygiene

Occupational hygiene (United States: industrial hygiene (IH)) is the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, control, and confirmation (ARECC) of protection from risks associated with exposures to hazards in, or arising from, the workplace that may result in injury, illness, impairment, or affect the well-being of workers and members of the community. Exposure assessment and Occupational hygiene are industrial hygiene and occupational safety and health.

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a regulatory agency of the United States Department of Labor that originally had federal visitorial powers to inspect and examine workplaces.

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Organism

An organism is defined in a medical dictionary as any living thing that functions as an individual.

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A point of contact (POC) or single point of contact (SPOC) is a person or a department serving as the coordinator or focal point of information concerning an activity or program.

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Pollutant

A pollutant or novel entity is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of a resource. Exposure assessment and pollutant are Toxicology.

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Propagation of uncertainty

In statistics, propagation of uncertainty (or propagation of error) is the effect of variables' uncertainties (or errors, more specifically random errors) on the uncertainty of a function based on them.

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Public health

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".

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Regulation

Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends.

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Respiratory rate

The respiratory rate is the rate at which breathing occurs; it is set and controlled by the respiratory center of the brain.

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Retrospective

A retrospective (from Latin, "look back"), generally, is a look back at events that took place, or works that were produced, in the past.

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Risk assessment

Risk assessment determines possible mishaps, their likelihood and consequences, and the tolerances for such events. Exposure assessment and Risk assessment are occupational safety and health.

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Risk management

Risk management is the identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.

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Sampling (medicine)

In medicine, sampling is gathering of matter from the body to aid in the process of a medical diagnosis and/or evaluation of an indication for treatment, further medical tests or other procedures.

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Sensitivity analysis

Sensitivity analysis is the study of how the uncertainty in the output of a mathematical model or system (numerical or otherwise) can be divided and allocated to different sources of uncertainty in its inputs.

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Statistical inference

Statistical inference is the process of using data analysis to infer properties of an underlying distribution of probability.

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Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is a United States law, passed by the 94th United States Congress in 1976 and administered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that regulates chemicals not regulated by other U.S. federal statutes, including chemicals already in commerce and the introduction of new chemicals.

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Toxicity

Toxicity is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substances can damage an organism. Exposure assessment and Toxicity are Toxicology.

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Toxicokinetics

Toxicokinetics (often abbreviated as 'TK') is the description of both what rate a chemical will enter the body and what occurs to excrete and metabolize the compound once it is in the body. Exposure assessment and Toxicokinetics are Toxicology.

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Toxicology

Toxicology is a scientific discipline, overlapping with biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, that involves the study of the adverse effects of chemical substances on living organisms and the practice of diagnosing and treating exposures to toxins and toxicants. Exposure assessment and Toxicology are occupational safety and health.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_assessment

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