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Health risk assessment

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"Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA) is a tiered process that progresses from the use of short-term tests (acute oral and dermal toxicity, skin and eye irritation, mutagenicity , sensitisation potential) and conservative assumptions to longer-term (chronic) tests paired with more realistic assumptions.

HHRA continues until either of the following outcomes is reached:

- The risk quotient or safety factor is satisfactory. Its exact value depends on the endpoint and the quality of the data"...

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