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Adam M. Finkel is a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. (These views are his own.) He was the chief scientist at the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and later its chief enforcement official in the Rocky Mountain States, under presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. He is one of the pioneers who helped develop the science of quantitative risk assessment in the 1980s and beyond. Finkel wrote this for InsideSources.com.