Project Code: EPA-USA-9
| Project Title | Evaluating Food Consumption by Hunters for Risk Assessments at Superfund sites |
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| Project Summary | The objective of the project is to obtain information that would be useful for evaluating potential updates to EPA’s methods for risk assessment at Superfund sites where hunting or fishing is a concern to address in the human health risk assessment. |
| Country | United States |
| Agency | Environmental Protection Agency |
| DoS Office | N/A |
| Post | N/A |
| Section | N/A |
| Number of Interns | 1 |
The project would involve researching issues that arise when assessing risks from exposure to contamination at radioactively contaminated Superfund sites. This project would be obtaining additional information for a report on game animals that are commonly hunted and fished in the United States. An upcoming webinar on the completion of this report is expected to provide EPA with additional sources of information about game animals hunted and fished in the US. In addition, this project would analyzing site-specific risk assessments for information on human ingestion rates of animals that are hunted and fished. Additionally, information on common game would be obtained including the consumption of fodder, water, and soil by animals and the transfer of contamination into portions of the animals consumed by humans.
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| Analytical writing |
| Research |
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