Keynote address: Human health risk assessment: A historical overview and alternative paths forward

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 11, Issue 6-7, 1999, Pages 477-518

  McClellan, Roger O ^a  

^a CIIT CENTERS FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EXPOSURE; HISTORY; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 0033139269     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/089583799196880     Document Type: Article

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