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The past decade has seen a world wide proliferation of legislation intended to protect the worker and the public against any ill- effects of exposure to industrial chemicals. It is often assumed that more tests will result in greater safety and that harmonization of test protocols will render the results of tests more readily acceptable to others. The harmonization effected by OECD guidelines[1] has assisted in the institution of minimal standards, but whether increased legislation has increased ultimate safety to any significant degree is more debatable and the overall cost to the community has barely been considered. Of even greater importance is the consideration whether the funding could not have been more profitably and efficiently applied to individually prepared programmes and protocols linked to specific chemicals and their perceived risks.
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Cooke, M.A. (1986). Industrial Chemicals. In: Worden, A.N., Parke, D.V., Marks, J. (eds) The Future of Predictive Safety Evaluation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4139-7_9
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