Administered Dose
In exposure assessment, the amount of a substance given to a test subject (human or animal) to determine dose-response relationships. Since exposure to chemicals is usually inadvertent, this quantity is often called potential dose.
A measure of exposure expressed as the mass of a substance in contact with the exchange boundary per unit body weight per unit time (e.g., mg chemical/kg body weight-day). Also termed the normalized exposure rate equivalent to administered dose.
The amount of a substance available for interaction with metabolic processes after crossing the outer boundary of an organism. (See absorbed dose, administered dose, applied dose, and potential dose.) ...
 See also: Dose, Potential dose, Exposure assessment, Dose-response, Dose-response relationship
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