Safe Enough? - Managing Risk and Regulation

Contents

About the Authors / vii

Introduction / 3

        Laura Jones

1

Risks All around Us

Risk Aversion: The Rise of an Ideology / 13
        Mark Neal

Unknown Causes, Unknown Risks
        Lydia Miljan with Kate Morrison and Kelly Torrance

2

Case Studies in Risk Management

Science and Policy in the Economic Assessment of Transport Regulations / 53
        William G. Waters, II

Second-hand Smoke and Cancer: The Research Evidence / 73
        John C. Luik

Much Ado about (Almost) Nothing: Greenpeace and the Allegedly Toxic Teethers and Toys / 107
        William T. Stanbury with Elaine Atsalakis, Dian Choi, Vivian Lau,
        Tammy Lee, Sindy Li, Olivia Tsang

Genetically Engineered Angst: From Frankenstein to Frankenfoods / 135
        Douglas Powell

3

Too Safe?

Progress at Risk: Using the Precautionary Principle as a Standard for Regulatory Policy / 155
        H. Sterling Burnett

Dying Too Soon: How Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Can Save Lives / 165
        Tammy O. Tengs

The Reluctance to Use Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Regulatory Decision-Making / 187
        Peter J. Neumann

Reforming Risk Regulation in Canada: The Next Policy Frontier? / 195
        William T. Stanbury