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risk de minimis
Risk that is negligible and too small to be of societal concern (usually assumed to be a probability below 10-5 or 10-6).
Note 1: This term can also mean ‘virtually safe’.
Note 2: In the USA, this is a legal term used to mean ‘negligible risk to the individual’.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Biology; Chemistry
- Category: Toxicology
- Company: National Library of Medicine
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- Walter Lane
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