Letter to the editor regarding recent publication titled "Developing an internal threshold of toxicological concern (iTTC)" by Arnot et al. (2022)

Corie A Ellison¹, Jon A Arnot^{2

3

4}, Susan P Felter⁵, George P Daston⁵, Richard A Becker⁶, Liisa Toose², James M Armitage², Alessandro Sangion^{2

3}, Alexandra Looky², Trevor N Brown², Li Li⁷

Affiliations

¹ The Procter & Gamble Company, 8700 Mason Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45040, USA. Ellison.ca@pg.com.
² ARC Arnot Research and Consulting Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁵ The Procter & Gamble Company, 8700 Mason Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45040, USA.
⁶ American Chemistry Council, Washington, DC, USA.
⁷ School of Public Health, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, USA.

Comment

Corie A Ellison et al. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2023 Sep.

. 2023 Sep;33(5):840-841.

doi: 10.1038/s41370-023-00571-9. Epub 2023 Jul 14.

¹ The Procter & Gamble Company, 8700 Mason Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45040, USA. Ellison.ca@pg.com.
² ARC Arnot Research and Consulting Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁵ The Procter & Gamble Company, 8700 Mason Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45040, USA.
⁶ American Chemistry Council, Washington, DC, USA.
⁷ School of Public Health, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, USA.

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Comment on

Developing an internal threshold of toxicological concern (iTTC).
Arnot JA, Toose L, Armitage JM, Sangion A, Looky A, Brown TN, Li L, Becker RA. Arnot JA, et al. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2022 Nov;32(6):877-884. doi: 10.1038/s41370-022-00494-x. Epub 2022 Nov 8. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2022. PMID: 36347933 Free PMC article.

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