Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

Deciding whether a chemical is causally linked to a health effect is the task of hazard identification, not of dose-response assessment.

Characterizing how the received dose relates to the incidence of harm is dose-response assessment, not hazard identification.

Statement 1 gives the causal-link role to dose-response assessment, which reverses the two steps.

Statement 2 gives the dose-incidence role to hazard identification, again reversing them.

Both descriptions swap the two stages, so neither is right.

Risk assessment runs as hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment and risk characterization in sequence.