Toxicological Risk Assessment for Beginners

✍ Scribed by José A. Torres, Sol Bobst (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book serves as a comprehensive introductory guide to the practical aspects of risk assessment. Chapters include clearly defined objectives and summaries. The book includes: hazard identification, dose-response, exposure assessment, risk characterization, chemical mixtures, epidemiology, emerging issues and global perspectives with accessible language. The book concludes with a set of hypothetical case studies.

Toxicological Risk Assessment for Beginners aims not to create an expert, but rather to provide readers with their first understanding of the risk assessment topic. This book was designed with the student in mind. We simplify a complex process for beginners and balance theory with practical aspects, but remain fluid enough to increase difficulty with case studies. By incorporating an action based, step by step approach to learning the risk assessment process, this book provides its readers with an elementary understanding of how the risk assessment process is initiated, developed and finished, making it a valuable guide for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and early career scientists in industry.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Hazard Identification....Pages 19-41
Dose-Response Assessment....Pages 43-66
Exposure Assessment....Pages 67-89
Risk Characterization for Human Health Risk Assessments....Pages 91-110
Risk Assessment Strategies and Techniques for Combined Exposures....Pages 111-134
Use of Epidemiology in Risk Assessment....Pages 135-159
Emerging Issues in Risk Assessment....Pages 161-169
Risk Assessment in the European Union (EU)....Pages 171-186
Brief Survey of Global Approaches for Risk Assessment....Pages 187-195
Skills Development and Resources for Risk Assessment....Pages 197-209
Case Studies Chapter....Pages 211-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-250

✦ Subjects

Pharmacology/Toxicology; Environmental Health; Public Health; Chemistry/Food Science, general