Animal Use and Lessons Learned in the U.S. High Production Volume Chemicals Challenge Program.
BACKGROUND: Launched by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1998, the High Production Volume (HPV) Challenge Program was developed to address the perceived gap in basic hazard information for the 2,800 chemicals produced or imported into the United States in quantities of > 1 million p...
| Published in: | Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 120; no. 12; pp. 1631 - 1640 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Dec2012
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