Adequate safety-in-use evaluations of all chemicals persistent in our air, foodstuffs, and drinking
water are not simple matters, and they incorporate the judgments of many individuals highly trained
in a variety of complex biological, chemical, food technological, medical, pharmacological, and
toxicological disciplines.
Reviews of1 Environmental Contamination and Toxicology continues to serve as an integrating
factor both in focusing attention on those matters requiring further study and in collating for
variously trained readers current knowledge in specific important areas involved with chemical
contaminants in in the the total environment.
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical
reviews of timely advances, philosophy, and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor
in the total field of xenobiotics in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological
implications. These reviews can be either general or specific, but properly they may lie in the
domains of analytical chemistry and its methodology, biochemistry,
human and animal medicine, legislation, pharmacology, physiology, regulation, and toxicology,
Certain affairs in food technology concerned specifically with pesticide and other food-additive
Justification for the preparation of any review for this book series Is that deals with some aspect
problems are also appropriate subjects.
of the many real 1 problems arising from the presence of any foreign chemical in our suroundings.
Thus, manuscripts may encompass case studies from any country. Added plant or animal pest-
scope. manner storage) control preservation, of Food are air, chemicals also as additives water, well or considered as soil, their those or1 (substances plant metabolites suitable Or inadvertently review deliberately that animal may life added material. is added persist during to within into foods Addiionally, these food for manufacture, and flavor, objectives animal chemical packing, odor, and feeds their are appearance, contamination distribution, purview. within
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