Title: risk associated with a lifetime exposure
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - risk associated with a lifetime exposure
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.16059
Status: current

Definition
Probability of the occurrence of a specified undesirable event following exposure of an individual person from a given population to a specified substance at a defined level for the expected lifetime of the average member of that population.

Source
- PAC, 2007, 79, 1153. 'Glossary of terms used in toxicology, 2nd edition (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1303 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200779071153)

Other Outputs
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- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16059/xml

Citation: Citation: 'risk associated with a lifetime exposure' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.16059
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