Screening and testing chemicals in commerce. Background paper

Technical Report · Fri Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:147504

This background paper comes from a workshop held by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) in April 1995. OTA invited experts from industry, academia, and government who are involved with toxicity testing and screening chemicals. The individual chapters of this report were written by participants in the workshop. Each chapter discusses a specific type of testing or screening method. Every chapter has been reviewed by at least two outside reviewers for accuracy and completeness. After revisions, the final versions are produced here. The report reviews some of the many test technologies and techniques available for screening chemicals-in-commerce for toxicity. Some of the test technologies, such as those for predicting carcinogenesis, are well established and results can be fairly clearly linked to real health effects in humans. Results of other tests, such as those for detecting neurotoxicity, are presently less clearly linked to actual human health effects.

• Research Organization: Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress), Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 147504
• Report Number(s): PB--96-107545/XAB; OTA-BP-ENV--166
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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