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What is chronic toxicity?

Last Updated: March 11, 2009

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Chronic toxicity is the capacity of a substance to produce injury to a living organism in which symptoms develop slowly over a long period of time, or recur frequently following exposure (whether or not they occur immediately upon exposure or are delayed). Toxicity is due to slow-action or long-term exposure to a poison.

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