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Alain LOMBARD: Consultant toxicologist and IPRP, Allotoxconsulting, Antibes, France
INTRODUCTION
Your company manufactures, imports or stores chemicals, and you need to assess their hazards through toxicology studies, as well as the potential risks to those handling them.
To do this, you need to understand the requirements of industrial and regulatory toxicology, so that you can initiate and monitor studies.
The aim of this data sheet is to define the principles of toxicology, as well as the concepts of hazard and risk. It introduces the concepts needed to understand and implement toxicology studies.
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