date:May 24, 2012
In recent years, the low dose hypothesis has increasingly challenged the accepted the dose-response model which is based on the notion that the nature of the response to a substance or the risk from it - increases in proportion to dose.
Low dose effects turn this scientific cornerstone on its head and maintain that the effect of some hormonally active agents is not linked to dose.
This school of thought, if proved, would in turn challenge the key assumption of a threshold which is implicit