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Whenever awareness about a new area of concern in toxicology reaches a critical level, national and international public health authorities request the immediate development of testing procedures with which large numbers of established and new chemicals can be evaluated. Previous experience in the areas of teratogenicity, carcinogenicity, mutagenicity and others has shown that toxicologists respond enthusiastically to such demands. Unfortunately, in their eagerness to test as many chemicals as possible, scientists often do not spend sufficient time studying the theoretical basis and medical relevance of their experimental models. Moreover, classical concepts of toxicology, e.g. the compulsory use of excessively high doses, are uncritically applied in the newly developed tests.
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Zbinden, L.C. (1987). A Toxicologist’s View of Immunotoxicology. In: Berlin, A., Dean, J., Draper, M.H., Smith, E.M.B., Spreafico, F. (eds) Immunotoxicology. Developments in Hematology and Immunology, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4307-0_1
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