NinjaZ@infosec.pub to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 9 months agoThe lethal doses of 55 substancesinfosec.pubimagemessage-square160fedilinkarrow-up1563arrow-down159
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minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoMost of it is for rats because experiments on humans would be illegal. The acute oral LD₅₀ for gasoline in rats has been reported to be 14063 mg/kg in this paper: Beck LS, Hepler DI, Hansen KL. 1983. The acute toxicology of selected petroleum hydrocarbons. In: MacFarland HN, Holdsworth LE, MacGregor JA, et al., eds. Proceedings on the 1st Symposium on the toxicology of petroleum hydrocarbons, Washington, DC: American Petroleum Institute. May 1982. 1-12.
Most of it is for rats because experiments on humans would be illegal. The acute oral LD₅₀ for gasoline in rats has been reported to be 14063 mg/kg in this paper: Beck LS, Hepler DI, Hansen KL. 1983. The acute toxicology of selected petroleum hydrocarbons. In: MacFarland HN, Holdsworth LE, MacGregor JA, et al., eds. Proceedings on the 1st Symposium on the toxicology of petroleum hydrocarbons, Washington, DC: American Petroleum Institute. May 1982. 1-12.