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Issues in risk assessment /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Risk Assessment Methodology
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Toxicology > methods.
Carcinogenicity Tests.
Environmental Exposure.
Probability.
Risk.
Table of 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.