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  2. Acceptable daily intake - Wikipedia

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    Acceptable daily intake or ADI is a measure of the amount of a specific substance (originally applied for a food additive, later also for a residue of a veterinary drug or pesticide) in food or drinking water that can be ingested (orally) daily over a lifetime without an appreciable health risk. [1]

  3. Reference dose - Wikipedia

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    Subsequently, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) reviewed the health implications of perchlorate, and in 2005 proposed a much higher alternative reference dose of 0.0007 mg/kg/day based primarily on a 2002 study by Greer et al. [6] During that study, 37 adult human subjects were split into four exposure groups exposed to 0.007 (7 subjects ...

  4. Threshold dose - Wikipedia

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    For the drugs administered by oral and dermal route, the units of threshold dose are mg/kg body-weight/day (dose of the drug in mg per body weight in kg per day) or ppm (parts per million), while the threshold dose of drugs by inhalation delivery has the unit of mg/L 6h/day (amount of drug in mg in 1L of air, for 6 hours per day). [8]

  5. List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions - Wikipedia

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    every day (once daily) (preferred to "qd" in the UK [10]) o.d. oculus dexter: right eye o can be mistaken as an a which could read "a.d.", meaning right ear, confusion with "omni die" o.m. omni mane: every morning omn. bih. omni bihora: every 2 hours omn. hor. omni hora: every hour o.n. omni nocte: every night OPD once per day o.s.

  6. Human body weight - Wikipedia

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    Human body weight is a person's mass or weight.. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of mass without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessories such as mobile phones and wallets, and using manual or digital weighing scales.

  7. HAZMAT Class 6 Toxic and infectious substances - Wikipedia

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    The result is expressed in mg/kg body mass. Dermal Toxicity : LD 50 for acute dermal toxicity means that dose of the material which, administered by continuous contact for 24 hours with the shaved intact skin (avoiding abrading) of an albino rabbit, causes death within 14 days in half of the animals tested.

  8. Volume of distribution - Wikipedia

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    An example for a simple case (mono-compartmental) would be to administer D=8 mg/kg to a human. A human has a blood volume of around V b l o o d = {\displaystyle V_{blood}=} 0.08 L/kg . [ 7 ] This gives a C 0 = {\displaystyle C_{0}=} 100 μg/mL if the drug stays in the blood stream only, and thus its volume of distribution is the same as V b l o ...

  9. Glyphosate - Wikipedia

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    Upload file; Special pages; ... at 1.75 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day (mg/kg/bw ... of text saying certain studies had found ...