Pollutant ranking assessment

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-021433",
  "term": "Pollutant ranking assessment",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Pollutant Ranking Assessment",
  "definition": "An assessment used to rank chemicals with respect to their impact on human health and the environment. Often used to select a subset of most important chemicals to focus further risk assessments on. For example, the 33 air toxics highlighted as priority pollutants in EPA's Urban Strategy were selected based on a number of factors, including toxicity-weighted emissions, monitoring data, past air quality modeling analysis, and a review of existing risk assessment literature.",
  "subject": "Air",
  "references": [
    "Community-Based Air Pollution Projects Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/pollutant-ranking-assessment/"
}