A straw man proposal for a quantitative definition of the RfD

Drug and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 403-436

  Hattis, Dale ^a   Baird, Sandra ^a   Goble, Robert ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interspecies; Noncancer; Population distributions; Probabilistic analysis; Quantitative risk assessment; Thresholds; Uncertainty factors

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SPECIES COMPARISON; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 0036386331     PISSN: 01480545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/DCT-120014793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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