Quantitative BSE risk assessment: Relating exposures to risk

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 239-242

  Gale, P ^a  

^a WRC PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; BEEF; BONE; EFFLUENTS; HEALTH RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

EXPOSED TO; HIGH DOSE; MOST LIKELY; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT METHOD; RISK ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES; RISKS ASSESSMENTS; SINGLE EXPOSURE; THRESHOLD EFFECT;

POTABLE WATER;

DRINKING WATER;

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOSE RESPONSE; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MEAT; NONHUMAN; PRION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SPINAL GANGLION;

EID: 0031796543     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.1998.00449.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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