Environmental Toxicology Diary

This post will briefly describe about definition of carcinogens, mechanisms of actions, the sources of carcinogens, and how we can identify and classify carcinogens.
What is definition of carcinogens?
It is any cancer-causing substance, chemical or physical, such as benzene, cadmium, asbestos or certain types of radiation. The term cancer refers to a type of neoplasm, […]

Prevalence and incidence rates as already discussed in previous post measure the frequency of occurence of observable effect due to exposure of suspected causative agent (etiological factor). However, as these rates are only used to provide information regarding the chance, possibility of occurence of a response, effect because of an etiological factor. But this risk, […]

Epidemiology study is the study of the causative factors of an ilness or disease. These causative factors are associated with the incidence and distribution of disease within a specific population. So basically, it is just as same as toxicology study, both are aiming the same objective, finding out the etiological factor of a disease. What […]

Short review and definition of toxicologist has been explained in Toxicologist: roles and jobs. As explained before, a toxicologist has a very crucial role in determining every aspects for risk assessment. Several types of toxicologist are descriptive, mechanistic, forensic, environmental, regulatory and food toxicology. This post will cover descriptive and mechanistic toxicology.

Descriptive Toxicology
Descriptive toxicologist […]

A toxicologist is an expert that does the job to obtain information about chemical toxicity by either chemical analogies, epidemiology studies or toxicology studies.

Are there any complete references about toxic chemicals?
The number of tocix chemicals and their effects are so numerous and diverse that it would be difficult for any agencies or individual […]