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Most toxicologists now probably accept the paradigm on which their work of toxicity testing is generally considered to be based (Fig. 1).
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Dayan, A.D. (1992). Risk Assessment — Scientific Aspects. In: Bolt, H.M., de Wolff, F.A., Henderson, P.T. (eds) Medical Toxicology. Archives of Toxicology, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77260-3_8
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