The Brazilian hazard-based cut-off criteria for pesticide registration: a critical appraisal / Critérios de exclusão baseados em perigo adotados no Brasil para registro de pesticidas: Uma avalição crítica

The Brazilian hazard-based cut-off criteria for pesticide registration: a critical appraisal / Critérios de exclusão baseados em perigo adotados no Brasil para registro de pesticidas: Uma avalição crítica

Brazil, the world’s top consumer of agricultural pesticides, adopts a unique hazard-based cut-off approach to pesticide registration. Cut-off criteria for mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, teratogenicity, hormonal disturbances and damage to reproductive organs were introduced by the Pesticide Law enact...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Francisco José Roma Paumgartten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2013-02-01
Series:Vigilância Sanitária em Debate: Sociedade, Ciência & Tecnologia
Subjects:
Risk assessment; Hormonal disturbances; Teratogenicity; Carcinogenicity; Mutagenicity
Avaliação de risco; Distúrbios hormonais; Teratogenicidade; Carcinogenicidade; Mutagenicidade
Online Access:http://www.visaemdebate.incqs.fiocruz.br/index.php/visaemdebate/article/view/6/8

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