A safety concept to evaluate the acute toxicity data of fire effluents for assess ing the toxic hazards in real fire is described. It is demonstrated that wrong conclusion will be the outcome if any laboratory toxicity data are used as direct pass-fail criteria. Analytically determined concentration data of major com ponents are useful for the interpretation of bioassay data, mathematical model ling as well as quality control.
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