Assessment and management of chemical risks
Subtitle: based on a symposium sponsored by the Division of Chemical Health and Safety at the 184th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Kansas City, Missouri, September 12-17, 1982
By: Joseph V. Rodricks, editor, Robert G. Tardiff, editor.
Contributors: Rodricks, Joseph V., 1938-; Tardiff, Robert G.; American Chemical Society. Division of Chemical Health and Safety.; American Chemical Society. Meeting
Series: ACS symposium series ;; 239
Publisher: ACS
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Toxicity testing -- Congresses; Toxicology -- Congresses; Health risk assessment -- Congresses
Description: vii, 184 pages : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Conceptual basis for risk assessment / Joseph V. Rodricks and Robert G. Tardiff; title: Use of toxicity test data in the estimation of risks to human health / Norton Nelson; title: Interspecies extrapolation / Daniel B. Menzel and Elaine D. Smolko; title: Basic concepts of the dose-response relationship / Robert Snyder; title: High- to low-dose extrapolation in animals / Charles C. Brown; title: Legal considerations in risk assessment under federal regulatory statutes / Peter Barton Hutt; title: Inter-risk comparisons / E.A.C. Crouch and Richard Wilson; title: Uncertainty and quantitative assessment in risk management / M. Granger Morgan; title: Use of risk assessment and safety evaluation / Virgil O. Wodicka; title: The need for risk assessment of chemicals in corporate decision making / Fred Hoerger; title: Chemical industry perspectives on regulatory impact analysis / René D. Zentner.