What is a Poison?
All substances are poisons;
there is none that is not a poison.
The right dose
differentiates a poison and a remedy.
Paracelsus (1493-1541)
Any substance in large enough amounts, even water or aspirin, can cause harm to human health or the environment, and most of the activities we engage in daily, from driving to bathing, involve some risk. The question that most of us ask before engaging in activities is “will there be an unacceptable risk?”
For crop protection chemicals like EBDCs, Health Risk assessments help answer that question. In this section you can learn more about how health assessments are conducted and what the results of those assessments are for EBDCs and ETU.
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