ABSTRACT
The human health risk assessment model puts a value on an individual life; but in nature, the individual is expendable. The only thing of value in an ecological population model is the perpetuation of the gene pool. In population assessments, the fate of an individual is irrelevant. Any analysis of chlorine compounds and their ecological health effects involves risk assessment. The panel on ecology and welfare for the Reducing Risk project concluded that these were more important than groundwater and Superfund problems. Any analysis of chlorine compounds and their ecological health effects involves risk assessment. The human health panel was asked to rank contaminants, carcinogens, and noncarcinogens, but finally this group of eminent scientists decided that they could not agree concerning the relative rankings. The panel had to rank ecological and welfare effects to show where the priorities are and where one can get the biggest bang for the buck in environmental problem setting.
