Global analysis of publicly available safety data for 9,801 substances registered under REACH from 2008-2014

Altex

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 95-109

  Luechtefeld, Thomas ^a   Maertens, Alexandra ^a   Russo, Daniel P ^b   Rovida, Costanza ^d   Zhu, Hao ^b,c   Hartung, Thomas ^a,d  

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

^b USA   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal testing; Chemical toxicity; Computational toxicology; Database; In silico

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DANGEROUS GOODS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL USE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL SAFETY; DATA BASE; EYE INJURY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT; SKIN ALLERGY; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; DANGEROUS GOODS; EUROPE; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; TOXICITY; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; EUROPE; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 84962788737     PISSN: 1868596X     EISSN: 18688551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14573/altex.1510052     Document Type: Article

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