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FERA - Guidance For Risk Characterization

This guidance contains principles for developing and describing EPA risk assessments, with a particular emphasis on risk characterization. The current document is an update of the guidance issued with the Agency's 1992 policy (Guidance on Risk Characterization for Risk Managers and Risk Assessors, February 26, 1992). The guidance has not been substantially revised, but includes some clarifications and changes to give more prominence to certain issues, such as the need to explain the use of default assumptions.

  • Guidance for Risk Characterization (pdf) (64.31 KB, February 1995)

Air: Fate, Exposure, and Risk Analysis (FERA)

  • Total Risk Integrated Methodology (TRIM)
    • TRIM.FaTE
    • TRIM.Expo
    • TRIM.Risk
    • Peer Review and Publications
  • Multimedia Fate and Transport Modeling
    • TRIM.FaTE
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  • Human Exposure Assessment and Modeling
    • Criteria Air Pollutant Exposure Assessment
    • Databases to Support Exposure Modeling
    • Air Pollutants Exposure Model (APEX/ TRIM.Expo Inhalation)
    • Hazardous Air Pollutant Exposure Model (HAPEM)
    • Other Models and Exposure-Related Information
  • Risk Assessment and Modeling
    • Air Toxics Risk Assessment
    • Criteria Air Pollutant Risk Assessment
    • Human Exposure Model (HEM)
    • EPA Risk Assessment Policy, Guidelines, and Related Materials
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Last updated on February 12, 2025
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