Acesulfame potassium: Soffritti responds [2]

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Soffritti, Morando ^a  

^a European Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences B Ramazzini   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACESULFAME; ASPARTAME;

BRAIN CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY TESTING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 33748192116     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.114-a516b     Document Type: Letter

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