ABSTRACT
Risk assessment is a four-step process, involving hazard assessment, exposure assessment, dose-response estimation/assessment, and an integrative risk characterization. Many factors may therefore affect the estimation of risk within the population (National Research Council [NRC] 1983). The risk assessment process has become codied and integrated into environmental, food safety, and occupational health practices throughout the world. This chapter explores how the concept of hormesis could affect process of risk assessment.
