 | 1990 - 392 pages
...cell-killing does not occur, the hazards may be much lower than is commonly assumed and will often be zero. Evidence from both epidemiology and toxicology...are not likely to be a significant cause of cancer. • The important consideration is that synthetic pesticides have markedly lowered the cost of plant... | |
 | Wolfgang Würger-Donitza - 1996 - 756 pages
...Mensch sei, so Ames/Gold, gut geschützt gegen niedrige Dosen künstlicher und natürlicher Chemikalien: "the hazards may be much lower than is commonly assumed and often will be zero".640 03 Vgl. Schmähl/Mohr/Tomatis(eds.), Air Pollution and Cancer in Man 04 Habs, Testmethoden... | |
 | Edward A. Laws - 2000 - 688 pages
...human exposures (where cell-killing and mitogenesis do not occur), the hazards [of nonmutagenic toxins] may be much lower than is commonly assumed and often will be zero" (Ames and Gold, 1990, p. 971 ). Given the above information, one should not be surprised to learn that... | |
 | 1993 - 62 pages
...cell-killing does not occur, the hazards may be much lower than is commonly assumed and will often be zero. Evidence from both epidemiology and toxicology...are not likely to be a significant cause of cancer. • The important consideration is that synthetic pesticides have markedly lowered the cost of plant... | |
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Since there is believed to be a threshold dose below which such nonmutagenic toxins exert no effect on cell division, "At the low doses of most human exposures (where cell-killing and mitogenesis do not occur), the hazards [of nonmutagenic toxins] may... 