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My paper deals with two different topics: first, the relation between population heterogeneity and dose-response at low dose; and second, the intrinsic limits to what science can say about dose-response at low dose, and how this affects regulatory policy.
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Weinberg, A.M. (1988). Risk Assessment, Regulation, and the Limits of Science. In: Woodhead, A.D., Bender, M.A., Leonard, R.C. (eds) Phenotypic Variation in Populations. Basic Life Sciences, vol 43. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5460-4_13
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