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Article: NTP announces bioassay results. (NIEHS News).
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
- Author:
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On 3 May 2001, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) presented for public review five technical reports by the NTP's Board of Scientific Counselors Technical Reports Subcommittee at the NIEHS. NTP technical reports describe an ongoing series of toxicity and carcinogenicity studies conducted on chemical or physical agents to which humans are exposed. The findings from these studies are unique information and knowledge used by health and regulatory agencies in making decisions that affect public health.
Each report reviewed at the meeting involved a series of short- and long-term studies in which male and female rats and/or mice were given a range of doses of test ...