Data quality evaluation of toxicological studies used to derive ecotoxicological benchmarks

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 747-765

  Durda, Judi L ^a   Preziosi, Damian V ^a  

^a CPF Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmark; Data quality; Ecotoxicological

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044523907     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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