ABSTRACT
Imagine you are a reviewer of toxicology reports, that you are unfamiliar with different companies’ jargon, and that you are not a toxicologist. How are you supposed to recognize that report titles such as “Subacute Oral Study”, “Subchronic Oral Gavage Study”, “Subchronic Gavage Study”, “Subchronic Gavage Study by the Oral Route”, “One-Month Oral Study”, “Study on the Subchronic Oral Toxicity”, “28-Day Study”, “One-Month Repeated-dose Oral Toxicity Study”, “Four-Week Study Per Os” all refer to the same type of investigation which was, incidentally, a 1-month oral toxicity study? What would you make of a “dietary study”, an “infeed study”, an “oral in-feed study”, an “oral study by dietary ad-mix”, or, if the study is to select dose levels for a subsequent carcinogenicity study, an “oral precarcinogenicity study by dietary ad-mix”, or an “in-feed range-finder study”? Strangely enough, these titles again refer to the same study, which was a 3-month dietary toxicity study.
