Robert L. Buchanan, Ph.D., is professor emeritus in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science & Center for Food Safety and Security Systems at the University of Maryland. He can be reached at rbuchana@umd.edu.
The process for evaluating chemicals in foods and the environment advanced significantly in 1983 when the National Research Council (NRC) published the first edition of its publication Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process.
