Risk-based Concentrations

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-024398",
  "term": "Risk-based Concentrations",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "An estimate of a health-based air concentration of a chemical that a person or ecosystem could be exposed to that would not result in a risk of cancer or other adverse health effects above a specified level of concern. The risk-based concentration is developed from toxicological dose response values (for human health, usually selecting the most protective of both cancer toxicological dose response values and noncancer toxicological dose response values) and assumptions about exposure rates. It is a tool used to identify which chemicals may pose a threat to human or ecological receptors without conducting an exposure or risk assessment.",
  "abbreviation": "RBCs",
  "subject": "Air",
  "references": [
    "Community-Based Air Pollution Projects Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/risk-based-concentrations/"
}