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Calculating the magnitude of exposure is really fundamental
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to understanding what the risk is.
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And most environmental laws are structured
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to manage chemicals based on this idea of risk.
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So to understand the risk and to manage it,
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you have to understand all of these intermediate issues,
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such as where was it released?
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Where does it go?
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How does it get into your environment?
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And what are the likely health effects?
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And the word likely is very important, because it implies
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that we need to be thinking probabilistically.