Overview
- Serves as a unique reference guide for governments worldwide
- Provides unique insight into toxicological risk assessment
- Describes modern test systems, explains basic risk concepts, and discusses dogmas in different regulation areas
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About this book
This 2nd edition of the Handbook "Regulatory Toxicology" was written and updated by experts for professionals, scientists and all those involved in toxicological data generation and decision-making. It includes a number of new chapters that cover recent developments, such as regulation of nanoparticles, illicit designer drugs or tattoos.
The Handbook deals comprehensively with the safety-ensuring methods and concepts employed for acute and chronic toxicity by regulatory agencies, industry and academics.Similar content being viewed by others
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Table of contents (99 entries)
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The “Modus Operandi” of Regulatory Toxicology
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Tests and Methods
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael Schwenk studied biochemistry and medicine in Tübingen, Germany, and thereafter specialized in pharmacology, toxicology, and nutritional and environmental medicine. He was appointed professor in Pharmacology and Toxicology in 1987. He worked in xix universities, basic research institutions, pharmaceutical industry, and a state health agency.
He created and headed the Regulatory Toxicology Study Group of the German Society of Toxicology, consulted health agencies in toxicological risk management, and was secretary of the IUPAC Division Chemistry and Human Health.
His research areas include membrane transport of xenobiotics, drug-biomolecule interactions, drug metabolism, cytotoxicity, phase I clinical studies, human biomonitoring, and risk assessment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Regulatory Toxicology
Editors: Franz-Xaver Reichl, Michael Schwenk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57499-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57498-7Published: 27 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57499-4Published: 25 September 2021
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIX, 1594
Number of Illustrations: 83 b/w illustrations, 153 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pharmacology/Toxicology, Safety in Chemistry, Dangerous Goods, Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine