Safety Testing: Moving Toward Alternative Methods
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Safety Testing: Moving Toward Alternative Methods
Protection of workers and consumers demands that safety testing accurately detects chemicals and products that can cause injury or disease. Chemicals make our lives more comfortable, but accidental and improper exposures to chemical substances continue to have a significant public health impact. According to the Institute of Medicine (2004), more than 4 million poisonings occur annually in the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901704