Subchronic Exposure 1
Subchronic Exposure 1 : (a) Exposure to a substance spanning approximately 10% of the lifetime of an organism. [IRIS, 1999: Glossary of IRIS Terms]; (b) An exposure of intermediate duration between acute and chronic. [REAP, 1995: Residential Exposure Assessment Project]; (c) Exposure to a substance spanning no more than approximately 10 percent of the lifetime of an organism. [USEPA, 1995: Benchmark Dose]; (d) Multiple or continuous exposures lasting for approximately ten percent of an experimental species lifetime, usually over a three_month period. [USEPA, 1997a: EPA Terms of Environment]