The site selection process for the National Exposure Registry

Journal Article · · Journal of Environmental Health; (United States)

OSTI ID:5496007

Gist, G L; Burg, J; Radtke, T M

The purpose of the National Exposure Registry (NER) is to facilitate the development of new scientific knowledge of long-term health consequences of environmental exposures to specific hazardous substances. Such hazardous substances have been or will be designated by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry as having data gaps that the Registry data could help close. In addition, the hazardous substances have been designated to be of major concern by ATSDR for unique reasons and no adequate data are available to assess the health effects of these substances. The large database of information obtained by the NER will aid in assessing long-term health consequences by facilitating epidemiologic or health studies. The NER can serve an important role in ensuring the uniformity and quality of the collected data. In addition, the NER will minimize duplicative data collection. The mechanism by which sub registries are established, conducted and maintained can be found in Policies and Procedures for Establishing a National Registry of Persons Exposed to Hazardous Substances. The objective of this paper is to provide an explicit description of the process used to find, validate and select sites for the NER.

• OSTI ID: 5496007
• Journal Information: Journal of Environmental Health; (United States), Journal Name: Journal of Environmental Health; (United States) Vol. 56:6; ISSN JEVHAH; ISSN 0022-0892
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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