Initiatives to decrease redundancy in animal testing of pesticides

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Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 159-161

  Van Ravenzwaay, Bennard ^a  

^a BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

12 month dog; Carcinogenicity mice; Obsolete studies

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; DATA BASE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ANIMAL; DOG; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVES; ANIMALS; DOGS; MICE; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 79955978152     PISSN: 09467785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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