3.3.4           Weighting category chronic toxicity

In the weighting category ‚Chronic toxicity‘ you can divide teratogenic, carcinogenic, and mutagenic substances into the classes 1 – 3. However, program-internally, in view of weighting factors, we  do not distinguish between the respective classes, because even in case of suspicion of, e. g., carcinogenic effects the release of the substances must be prevented. Therefore, all classes the weighting factor Q = 10 is assigned to! A compound at the same time mutagenic and carcinogenic, twice the value Q = 10 is assigned to.

 

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