Since the 1980 U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) proposal to lower the occupational benzene standard from 10 ppm to 1 ppm, numerous… (More)
The available epidemiologic data provide equivocal evidence that 1,3-butadiene is carcinogenic in humans; some available studies suggest that the lymphopoietic system is a target, but there are… (More)
The completion of a risk assessment does not reveal whether the assessed risk is of significant public health importance. Little attention has been paid to the development of rigorous analytic… (More)
Use of laboratory animal data to make quantitative predictions of the risks of toxic effects in humans assumes that a relationship exists between the potencies in animals and humans and that its… (More)
BACKGROUND
Loss of donor anonymity, as a result of an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, has led to concerns regarding continued recruitment of gamete and embryo donors.… (More)