Complex Mixtures

Committee on Methods for the In Vivo Toxicity Testing of Complex Mixtures, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1. Introduction; 4 2. Concepts for Analyzing Human Exposure to Complex Chemical Mixtures; 5 3. Testing Strategies and Methods; 6 4. Sampling and Chemical Characterization; 7 5. Interpretation and Modeling of Toxicity-Test Results; 8 Appendix A: Origins of Complex Mixtures; 9 Appendix B: Case Studies Establishing Active Agents and/or Interactions in Complex Mixtures; 10 Appendix C: Case Studies on Strategies for Testing the Toxicity of Complex Mixtures; 11 Appendix D: Predicting the Joint Risk of a Misture in Terms of the Component Risks; 12 Appendix E: Cancer Models; 13 Appendix F: Developmental Toxicology; 14 Appendix G: Empirical Modeling of the Toxicity of Mixtures; 15 Index