Dose-Response Assessment
1. Estimating the potency of a chemical. 2. In exposure assessment, the process of determining the relationship between the dose of a stressor and a specific biological response. 3.
dose-response assessment Estimating the potency of a chemical.
dose-response relationship The quantitative relationship between the amount of exposure to a substance and the extent of toxic injury or disease produced.
D dose-response assessment
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The second of four steps in risk assessment, ...
The four steps of a risk assessment are: hazard identification (Can this substance damage health?); dose-response assessment (What dose causes what effect?); exposure assessment (How and how much do people contact it?); ...
a natural resource and to interpret the significance of those effects in light of the uncertainties identified in each component of the assessment process. Such analysis includes initial hazard identification, exposure and dose-response assessments, ...
 See also: Risk, Dose-response, Exposure, Water, Hazard
  
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