Environmental Health Engineering Theory and Practice/Biologically Effective Dose

In pharmacology, an effective dose (ED) or effective concentration (EC) is a dose or concentration of a drug that produces a biological response. The term effective dose is used when measurements are taken in vivo, while the term effective concentration is used when the measurements are taken in vitro.

Useful Off-site Resources

 * Biological markers in environmental health research. Committee on Biological Markers of the National Research Council, (1987)