Report of the EPA Peer Review Workshop on Alpha2U-Globulin: Association withRenal Toxicity and Neoplasia in the Male Rat. Held in Gaithersburg, MD. on November 13-14, 1990

摘要

The workshop report highlights issues and conclusions from a U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) workshop on the question of using certain rat kidney tumors for human risk assessment. The workshop was convened to acquire expert opinion on a draft EPA report entitled ALPHA (SUB 2u) -Globulin: Association with Chemically Induced Renal Toxicity and Neoplasia in the Male Rat (55 Federal Register 46994; November 8, 1990). The final Risk Assessment Forum (Forum) report, which is based in part on information described in the workshop report, is scheduled for publication in the fall of 1991. EPA is making the final Forum report and the workshop report available to the public through notices in the Federal Register.