Risk-based Doses

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-024401",
  "term": "Risk-based Doses",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "An estimate of a health-based, media-specific concentration (e.g., soil or water) 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 dose 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": "RBDs",
  "subject": "Air",
  "references": [
    "Community-Based Air Pollution Projects Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/risk-based-doses/"
}