Comprehensive Environmental Assessment (CEA) is a holistic approach for evaluating the environmental
implications of various choices among chemicals, products, and technologies. CEA can be used to identify and
prioritize research to support future assessment efforts and/or to provide input to risk managers to enable better
targeted decisions. CEA offers both a framework for systematically organizing complex information and a
process that uses collective judgment to evaluate such information. Because it incorporates and builds on other
assessment and analytic methods, including conventional life cycle analysis, exposure assessment, hazard
analysis, and risk characterization, CEA serves as a meta-assessment approach to support organizing and
evaluating disparate information in assessment and subsequent risk management efforts