Part 3: Case Studies in Risk Assessment and Environmental Decision Making: Chapter 29: A BRIEF HISTORY OF RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT AFTER THE SEVESO ACCIDENT.

The article examines the history of environmental risk assessment and management following the Seveso accident in Italy on July 10, 1976. After the diffusion from the Icmesa plant of the toxic cloud, there was a mobilization of the Public Authorities and the Italian Scientific organizations, especially the ones in Lombardy. There is a difference between Regional limit in Lombardy and the limit of concern indicated by the Sanitary Control Authority of the U.S. During the Seveso reclaiming, the B zone was rechecked in 1982 and 1984/a995.