Bias in the US Environmental Protection Agency's Baseline Health Risk Assessment Supporting the Decision to Require Dredging of PCB-Bearing Sediments from the Hudson River.

HUDSON River (N.Y. & N.J.); NEW Jersey; NEW York (State)

The authors reflect on the issue of bias in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) baseline for health risk assessment (HRA) evaluation by keeping polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in sediments from the Hudson River in New Jersey and New York. They assert that EPA's HRA consistently misquantified parameters and underestimated the PCB movement sediments to water and to the air. They denote that EPA's move eliminated its requirement for HRA.