Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Domus Medica Gaustad Sognsvannsveien 9, 0372, Oslo, Norway, Division of Medical Sciences, University of Bradford, Richmond Road, BD7 1D, Bradford, UK, Department of Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University, Tac Street, 06330, Ankara, Turkey, Nanomaterial Toxicology Group, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Indian Institute o...

Insutitute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamada-oka, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan, Bio-multisome Research Team, Structural Physiology Research Group, RIKEN Harima Institute, Mikazuki Sayo, Hyogo 6...

In a recent issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology (APJMT), the importance of empowering medical toxicology in the Asia Pacific Region has been discussed. In the editorial by Dr. Afshari, it has been stated that national societies of medical toxicology are important infrastructure for the development of medical toxicology, and the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology ...

Marine and terrestrial food sources are susceptible to contamination by various industrial chemicals and microbial pathogens. Both types of hazard are amenable to regulatory assessment using a single toxicology data base, along with some knowledge of contaminant levels and consumption figures for food. On the other hand, regulatory problems persist with acutely toxic naturally occurring phycoto...

medical toxicology is somehow a neglected field of medicine. support for this discipline is necessary as there are many competing interests within a nation's public health priorities (1). in the previous issue of the asia pacific journal of medical toxicology, the essentials of the empowerment of medical toxicology in the asia pacific region have been discussed (2). perhaps, there is now an urg...

The co-Editors-in-Chief of Environmental Health respond to an unusual initiative taken by editors of 14 toxicology journals to influence pending decisions by the European Commission to establish a framework for regulating chemicals that pose a hazard to normal function of the endocrine system. This initiative is also the subject of this Commentary in this journal by authors who recently reviewe...

The past 20 years have seen many advances in methods for the assay of drugs and other poisons in biological fluids, with consequent improvement in the reliability of results. Therapeutic drug monitoring, drugs of abuse and laxative/diuretic screening, and occupational health monitoring have developed considerably. The value of assays with overt medico-legal implications and which require a high...

background and purpose: the internet offers a wide range of online digital resources for the field of toxicology. methods: the history of toxicology and electronic data collections are reviewed. this review presents a brief and non-comprehensive overview of a representative sampling of some of the broad array of toxicology-related learning, tutorial and information resources now becoming widely...