The new edition includes expanded coverage of industrial hygiene, risk assessment, and epidemiology and includes an expanded glossary of terms pertaining to hazardous materials, toxicology, and industrial hygiene. A sourcebook for anyone who needs to know where to find toxicology information. For the Third Edition, the editors have selected, organized, and updated the most relevant information available. New information on grants and other funding opportunities, physical hazards, patent literature, and technical reports have also been added. This comprehensive, time-saving tool is ideal for toxicologists, pharmacologists, drug companies, testing labs, libraries, poison control centers, physicians, legal and regulatory professionals, and chemists.
Special emphasis is placed on risk assessment, apoptosis, and methodological developments.
It is illustrated with diagrams, charts, and tables. Providing non-scientific readers with basic toxicological concepts, this book explains the need to understand those concepts and their applications in everyday life and how chemicals can affect both human and ecological organisms. This substantially updated edition presents fundamental principles and concepts behind the various types of toxicological studies, and explains how to design and conduct studies and interpret results. The text explains the increasing need to monitor, assess, and reevaluate the toxicity database of many agents and evaluates the place of individual studies in the overall toxicological assessment of a chemical. Concise descriptions of the formats of in vivo and in vitro studies and methods used in assessing endpoints of toxicity make this an essential introduction and guide for anyone who needs to understand or conduct toxicological studies.