Toxicology Matching
| Field that identifies and understands cellular, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms causing toxic effects (work in labs ; work at the bench) |
| three approaches to toxicology (subject areas) |
| mechanistic, descriptive, regulatory |
| specialized areas of application: |
| risk assessment and toxicogenomics |
| they work to set levels for safe exposures to: environmental contaminants, food additives, medicinals |
| less of a toxic agent reaching its target |
| when combined effect is much greater than the sum of the effects of each given alone |
| exposure for 1 month or less |
| when one subs. does not have a toxic effect but when added to another makes second compound more toxic than it would be alone |
| to become CSPI (certified specialist in poison info) .... |
| need 2000 hrs of logged calls and 2000 hrs of other... take it every 7 years |
| specialties (practice areas in toxicology) |
| food, analytical/forensic, clinical, occupational, regulatory, environmental |
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