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450 RISK ASSESSMENT<br />

Figure 18.3 Estimation of a safe human dose (SHD). The first step is identification of the target organ or<br />

effect most responsive to the chemical (in this case, target organ 1 in the upper panel). Dose–response data for<br />

this effect are used to identify no-observable-adverse-effect-level (NOAEL) and/or lowest-observable-adverseeffect-level<br />

(LOAEL) doses in order to approximate the threshold dose. Either the NOAEL or LOAEL is divided<br />

by a series of uncertainty factors to generate the SHD.

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