Risk assessment of mixtures and standard setting: Working towards practical compromises

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 34, Issue 11-12, 1996, Pages 1179-1181

  Bolt, H M ^a   Mumtaz, M M ^a,b  

^a Inst fur Arbeitsphysiologic   (Germany)

^b AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; NITROSAMINE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE;

DRUG MIXTURE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0030291927     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(97)00096-3     Document Type: Article

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