Testing toxic pesticides in humans: Health risks with no health benefits [3]

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Melnick, Ronald L ^a   Huff, James ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ALDICARB; CARCINOGEN; CHLORPYRIFOS; DICHLORVOS; DIMPYLATE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; CARCINOGENICITY; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CLINICAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME INHIBITION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE MUTATION; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LETTER; NEUROTOXICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIABILITY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTION; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; PESTICIDES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 3042649189     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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