Micronutrients, Hormesis and the Aptitude for the Maturation of Regulation
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Abstract
The potential of hormesis as the default model to assess and manage chemicals is considered in relation to micronutrients. It is pointed out that micronutrients, despite their well-known U-shaped dose-response curve, are assessed and managed only with excess-exposure in mind. Hereby a schism between health and safety is unjustifiably realized. This proves to be the conundrum of basically all chemicals regulation. It is proposed that hormesis could in principle address this conundrum.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajptsp.2008.144.151
Copyright: © 2008 Jaap C. Hanekamp. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- Hormesis
- micronutrients
- conundrum