Toxic equivalence factors, problems and limitations

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 34, Issue 11-12, 1996, Pages 1045-1051

  Neumann, H G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; CHEMICAL AGENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; METHEMOGLOBIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; TOLUENE DERIVATIVE; TRINITROTOLUENE;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CARCINOGENICITY; DRUG MIXTURE; HUMAN; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; RAT; SHORT SURVEY; WASTE;

EID: 0030292087     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(97)00073-2     Document Type: Article

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