When Risk Assessment Came to Washington: A Look Back

Federal regulatory agencies had, by the 1970s, been charged with enforcing a host of new laws requiring that they establish controls on human exposures to chemicals necessary to protect health. The agencies relied upon a methodology introduced in the 1950s to identify safe levels of exposure to chem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joseph V. Rodricks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-02-01
Series:Dose-Response
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1559325818824934