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Is this baby ingesting toxic substances?

Environmental Health

and Toxicology

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

Explain the goals of environmental health and identify major Discuss the study of hazards and their effects, including
environmental health hazards wildlife toxicology, case histories, epidemiology, animal
testing, and dose-response analysis
Describe the types of toxic substances in the environment,
the factors that affect their toxicity, and the defenses that Evaluate risk assessment and risk management
organisms possess against them
Compare philosophical approaches to risk and how they
Explain the movements of toxic substances and how they relate to regulatory policy
affect organisms and ecosystems

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