Mixture toxicity, cumulative risk, and environmental justice in United States federal policy, 1980–2016

Abstract Toxic chemicals — “toxicants” — have been studied and regulated as single entities, and, carcinogens aside, almost all toxicants, single or mixed and however altered, have been thought harmless in very low doses or very weak concentrations. Yet much work in recent decades has shown that tox...

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Main Authors: Robert Hunt Sprinkle, Devon C. Payne-Sturges
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-09-01
Series:Environmental Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-021-00764-5