As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.