06910 IUPAC Gold Book - maximum latent period 10.1351/goldbook.MT06910 MT06910 current 1 The length of time after which no causal relationship can reasonably be established. This length of time is the period from the last exposure to the point of time at which an exposed person has demonstrated the initial signs or symptoms. PAC, 2001, 73, 993. 'Risk assessment for occupational exposure to chemicals. A review of current methodology (IUPAC Technical Report)' on page 1023 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200173060993) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/MT06910/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/MT06910/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/MT06910/plain Citation: 'maximum latent period' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.MT06910 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-06-07T00:12:29+00:00