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Issues in risk assessment
Title
Issues in risk assessment [electronic resource] / Committee on Risk Assessment Methodology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
ISBN
0585025479 (electronic bk.)
9780585025476 (electronic bk.)
0309047862 (print)
9780309047869 (print)
Published
Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1993.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 356 p.) : ill.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
Variant and related titles
National Academies Press.
Other formats
Print version: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Risk Assessment Methodology. Issues in risk assessment. Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1993
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 23, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Use of the maximum tolerated dose in animal bioassays for carcinogenicity
Introduction
Correlations between carcinogenic potency and other measures of toxicity
Advantages and disadvantages of bioassays that use the MTD
Options considered
Conclusions and recommendations
Two-stage model of carcinogenesis
Issues in risk assessment
Paradigm for ecological risk assessment
Introduction
Scope of ecological risk assessment
Revision of 1983 framework to incorporate ecological risk assessment
Key scientific problems limiting application of ecological risk assessment
Conclusions
Recommendations.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Carcinogenicity Tests - Congresses.
Carcinogens - Congresses.
Environmental Monitoring - methods - Congresses.
Risk Factors - Congresses.
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National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.
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