Authors: Ralph L, Cooper, James C, Lamb, Sue M, Barlow, Karin, Bentley, Angela M, Brady, Nancy G, Doerrer, David L, Eisenbrandt, Penelope A, Fenner-Crisp, Ronald N, Hines, Lorraine F H, Irvine, Carole A, Kimmel, Herman, Koeter, Abby A, Li, Susan L, Makris, Larry P, Sheets, Gerrit, Speijers, Karen E, Whitby
Venue: Critical Reviews in Toxicology
Type: Publication
Abstract: A proposal has been developed by the Agricultural Chemical Safety Assessment (ACSA) Technical Committee of the ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) for an improved approach to assessing the safety of crop protection chemicals. The goal is to ensure that studies are scientifically appropriate and necessary without being redundant, and that tests emphasize toxicological endpoints and exposure durations that are relevant for risk assessment. The ACSA Life Stages Task Force proposes a tiered approach to toxicity testing that asse...
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Topics: 
Risk analysis (engineering)
Toxicology
Environmental health
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