The role of qsar methodology in the regulatory assessment of chemicals

Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages 367-382

  Worth, Andrew Paul ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

and adequacy of QSAR; Applicability; REACH; Regulatory assessment; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073142597     PISSN: 25424491     EISSN: 25424483     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9783-6_13     Document Type: Chapter

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