Indoor tanning exposure schedule: FDA pilot study flawed [1]

Photodermatology Photoimmunology and Photomedicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-58

  Sayre, Robert M ^a,b,c   Dowdy, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Rapid Precision Testing Laboratories   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; DOSIMETRY; ERYTHEMA; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LETTER; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNBURN; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES; HELIOTHERAPY; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 33846677695     PISSN: 09054383     EISSN: 16000781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0781.2007.00271.x     Document Type: Letter

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