Pesticide testing in humans: Ethics and public policy

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 914-919

  Oleskey, Christopher ^a   Fleischman, Alan ^b   Goldman, Lynn ^c   Hirschhorn, Kurt ^a   Landrigan, Philip J ^a   Lappé, Marc ^d   Marshall, Mary F ^e   Needleman, Herbert ^f   Rhodes, Rosemond ^a   McCally, Michael ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Center for Ethics and Toxics   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Children; Ethics; Humans; NOEL; Pesticides; Testing; U.S. EPA

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTEER; WORKSHOP;

EID: 3042648833     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6522     Document Type: Article

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