Open AccessLow-Level Exposure to Multiple Chemicals: Reason for Human Health Concerns?
Author(s) -
Andreas Kortenkamp,
Michael Faust,
Martin Scholze,
Thomas Backhaus
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.9358
Subject(s) - environmental health , risk assessment , quality (philosophy) , risk analysis (engineering) , toxicology , computer science , environmental science , medicine , biology , computer security , philosophy , epistemology
A key question in the risk assessment of exposures to multiple chemicals is whether mixture effects may occur when chemicals are combined at low doses which individually do not induce observable effects. However, a systematic evaluation of experimental studies addressing this issue is missing.
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