Use of hazard and risk information in risk management decisions: Solid particles and fibers under EPA's TSCA and EPCRA

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL., 1996, Pages 181-191

  Vu, Vanessa T ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

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