Chemical regulators have overreached

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7259, 2009, Pages 1080-1081

  Hartung, Thomas ^a,b   Rovida, Costanza ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AGENT;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COST; DATA BASE; DISASTER; EUROPE; EVALUATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IMMUNOTOXICITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LAW; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OPTIMISM; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SAFETY; STANDARD; SUSPENSION; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; RATS; REPRODUCTION; TOXICITY TESTS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 69349104947     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/4601080a     Document Type: Note

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