Reliability of the TTC approach: Learning from inclusion of pesticide active substances in the supporting database

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2015, Pages 24-38

  Feigenbaum, Alexandre ^a   Pinalli, Roberta ^b   Giannetto, Marco ^b,c   Barlow, Susan ^d  

^a ReSafe Network Technopole Alimentec   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c Centro Interdipartimentale SITEIAPR Parco Area delle Sciense   (Italy)

^d Consultant ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food safety; Pesticides; Risk assessment; Toxicity; TTC

Indexed keywords

CARBAMATE PESTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DANGEROUS GOODS; ORGANOPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLASSIFICATION; DIETARY INTAKE; EXPOSURE; FOOD SAFETY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NEUROTOXICITY; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTING; ANIMAL; DANGEROUS GOODS; DECISION TREE; DOSE RESPONSE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; MALE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; PROCEDURES; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; CARBAMATES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION TREES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; MALE; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; ORGANOPHOSPHATES; PESTICIDES; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 84911440227     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2014.10.016     Document Type: Article

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