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NCTR conducts peer-reviewed scientific research and provides expert technical advice and training that enable FDA to make sound science-based regulatory decisions and improve the health of the American people. The research is focused towards FDA's goals: 1) to understand critical biological events in the expression of toxicity and 2) to develop and characterize methods, and incorporate new technologies to improve the assessment of human exposure, susceptibility, and risk.

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