virtually safe dose

initialism: VSD
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Human exposure over a lifetime to a carcinogen which has been estimated, using mathematical modeling, to result in a very low incidence of cancer, somewhere between zero and a specified incidence (e.g., 1 cancer in \(\pu{1000000}\) exposed people).
Source:
PAC, 2007, 79, 1153. (Glossary of terms used in toxicology, 2nd edition (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)) on page 1332 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'virtually safe dose' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.16190 RIS BibTex EndNote
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