An ERD (Entity Relationship Diagram) is a graphical representation of the data in rest within a system (e.g. a business, an organization, an application) that is subject to analysis.
The U.S. EPA established the Reference Dose (RfD) Work Group to address these concerns. In preparing this report, the RfD Work Group has drawn on traditional report on risk assessment (NRC, 1983), to more fully articulate the use of noncancer, nonmutagenic experimental data in reaching regulatory decisions about the significance of exposures to chemicals.
Definition: An adverse effect, used to define a benchmark dose from which an RfD (or RfC) can be developed. The change in response rate over background of the BMR is usually in the range of 5-10%, which is the limit of responses typically observed in well-conducted animal experiments.