Threshold as a unifying theme in regulatory toxicology

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 900-906

  Cheeseman, Mitchell A ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational toxicology; Genetic toxicity tests; MULTICASE; Threshold of regulation; Threshold of regulation (TOR)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIETARY INTAKE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MUTAGENICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PACKAGING MATERIAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOXICOGENETICS; TOXIN ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; CARCINOGEN TESTING; DIET; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MUTAGEN TESTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; TOXICITY TESTING;

CARCINOGEN;

CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; DIET; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUES; TOXICITY TESTS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 28244452051     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: 14645122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652030500150143     Document Type: Article

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