Challenging risk assessment methods used for decades by toxicologists, a new review of the literature suggests that oral gavage, the most widely accepted method of dosing lab animals to test chemical toxicity, does not accurately mimic how humans are exposed to chemicals in everyday life. The review was led by environmental health scientist Laura Vandenberg at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Oral gavage refers to the way researchers give chemicals to animals ...
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