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Assessing Toxicity of Drinking Water Contaminants: An Overview
Chemical contaminants in drinking water can cause a variety of adverse health effects in humans, and a number of means are available to assess the toxicity of these chemicals. The most important means are epidemiology and animal tests. Epidemiology provides the most direct and least ambiguous information in that it assesses the actual occurrence of toxic effects in human populations exposed to chemical contaminants. Unfortunately, there are limitations to the use of epidemiology. Currently, experimental testing of animals is the most important means available to determine the toxicity of chemicals. A major limitation of these tests is the uncertainty about their applicability to humans. This uncertainty extends not only to differences in the qualitative responses of animals and humans to chemicals but more particularly to differences in the degree of response to various exposure levels.
Assessing Toxicity of Drinking Water Contaminants: An Overview
Chemical contaminants in drinking water can cause a variety of adverse health effects in humans, and a number of means are available to assess the toxicity of these chemicals. The most important means are epidemiology and animal tests. Epidemiology provides the most direct and least ambiguous information in that it assesses the actual occurrence of toxic effects in human populations exposed to chemical contaminants. Unfortunately, there are limitations to the use of epidemiology. Currently, experimental testing of animals is the most important means available to determine the toxicity of chemicals. A major limitation of these tests is the uncertainty about their applicability to humans. This uncertainty extends not only to differences in the qualitative responses of animals and humans to chemicals but more particularly to differences in the degree of response to various exposure levels.
Assessing Toxicity of Drinking Water Contaminants: An Overview
Neal, Robert A. (author)
Journal ‐ American Water Works Association ; 82 ; 44-47
1990-10-01
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Regulations , Mutagenicity , Health Effects , Analysis , Modeling , Carcinogenicity , Contamination , Carcinogens , Drinking Water , Toxicity , Bioassays , Testing , Epidemiology , Mutagens
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