Title Issues in risk assessment / Committee on Risk Assessment Methodology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.

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Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1993.

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 356 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Health risk assessment.
	Health risk assessment.
	Carcinogenicity testing.
	Carcinogenicity testing.
	Ecology.
	Ecology.
	Risk assessment.
	Risk assessment.
	Environmental health.
	Environmental health.
	Carcinogenicity Tests.
	Carcinogens.
	Environmental Monitoring.
	Risk Factors.
Genre/Form	Congress.
	Electronic books.
Added Author	National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.
Other Form:	Print version: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Risk Assessment Methodology. Issues in risk assessment. Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1993 0309047862 (DLC) 92061838 (OCoLC)29184836
ISBN	0585025479 (electronic book)
	9780585025476 (electronic book)
	0309047862 (print)
	9780309047869 (print)

Title Issues in risk assessment / Committee on Risk Assessment Methodology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.

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