| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Issues in risk assessment/ Committee on Risk Assessment Methodology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council. |
| Corporate Body: |
National Research Council (U.S.). |
| Published: |
Washington, DC :National Academy Press, : 1993., |
| Description: |
xvi, 356 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Carcinogenicity testing. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1200An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585025479 (electronic bk.) |