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Phantom fetus

Wilson has estimated that both drugs and environmental chemical exposures only account for 2-3% of developmental defects in man (Wilson, 1972).Thus, a product-label reference of such an occurrence will be undeserved at least 97% of the time, but also may be the first signal of a teratogenic risk. It may now be appreciated why this 2-3% risk is termed the phantom fetus and also why the difficulty in disproving liability... [Pg.208]

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