Food for thought uncertainty of testing methods - What do we (Want to) know?

Altex

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 131-144

  Paparella, Martin ^a   Daneshian, Mardas ^b   Hornek Gausterer, Romana ^a   Kinzl, Maximilian ^a   Mauritz, Ilse ^a   Mühlegger, Simone ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

3Rs; Assessment factors; Hazard uncertainty; Toxicological testing methods

Indexed keywords

ALKENE DERIVATIVE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; HYDROCARBON; NANOMATERIAL; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; EXPOSURE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERSPECIES UNCERTAINTY; INTRASPECIES UNCERTAINTY; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MORTALITY; NANOTOXICOLOGY; NONHUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; TARGET ORGAN; UNCERTAINTY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVES; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84877604097     PISSN: 1868596X     EISSN: 18688551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14573/altex.2013.2.131     Document Type: Article

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