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Multicriteria Decision Analysis Characterization of Chemical Hazard Assessment Data Sources
- Source :
- Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 15:895-908
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2019.
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Abstract
- Chemical hazard assessment (CHA), which aims to investigate the inherent hazard potential of chemicals, has been developed with the purpose of promoting safer consumer products. Despite the increasing use of CHA in recent years, finding adequate and reliable toxicity data required for CHA is still challenging due to issues regarding data completeness and data quality. Also, collecting data from primary toxicity reports or literature can be time consuming, which promotes the use of secondary data sources instead. In this study, we evaluate and characterize numerous secondary data sources on the basis of 5 performance attributes: reliability, adequacy, transparency, volume, and ease of use. We use GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals v1.4 as the CHA framework, which defines the endpoints of interest used in this analysis. We focused upon 34 data sources that reflect 3 types of secondary data: chemical-oriented data sources, hazard-trait-oriented data sources, and predictive data sources. To integrate and analyze the evaluation results, we applied 2 multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) methodologies: multiattribute utility theory (MAUT) and stochastic multiobjective acceptability analysis (SMAA). Overall, the findings in this research program allow us to explore the relative importance of performance criteria and the data source quality for effectively conducting CHA. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2019;00:1-14. © 2019 SETAC.
- Subjects :
- Research program
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Computer science
Geography, Planning and Development
010501 environmental sciences
Risk Assessment
01 natural sciences
Hazardous Substances
Decision Support Techniques
SAFER
Humans
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
business.industry
Reproducibility of Results
Usability
Secondary data
General Medicine
Multiple-criteria decision analysis
Chemical hazard
Risk analysis (engineering)
Consumer Product Safety
Data quality
Environmental Pollutants
business
Decision analysis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15513793 and 15513777
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....42f40afd368b46a2518e3327319f52ec
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4182