National Toxicology Program for the 21st Century. A Roadmap for the Future

摘要

The National Toxicology Program (NTP) is a world leader in providing scientific information that improves our ability to evaluate potential human health effects from chemical and physical exposures. The NTP maintains a number of complex, interrelated research and testing programs that provide unique and critical information needed by health regulatory and research agencies to protect public health. Its four goals are to: coordinate toxicological testing programs within the Department of Health and Human Services; develop and validate improved testing methods and, where feasible, ensure that they reduce, refine, or replace the use of animals; develop approaches and generate data that strengthen scientific knowledge about potentially hazardous substances; and communicate information about potentially hazardous substances to health regulatory and research agencies, scientific and medical communities, and the public.