Book description
This new edition of a widely-read and highly-acclaimed book broadens
the scope of its predecessors from a heavy focus on industrial chemicals
as toxicants to include drugs, food additives, cosmetics and other types
of compounds that people are exposed to daily. Also new to the 3
rd
edition are newer issues-of-the-day
such as nanoparticulate toxicants, second hand
smoke, food contamination, lead in toys
, and others. As such, the book provides the basics of toxicology in
easy-to-understand language as well as a fuller understanding of the
daily insults to which our bodies are subjected. Patricia Frank
is President of Patricia Frank & Associates, Inc., a consulting
firm founded in 1993 that assists companies in the development and
registration of human and veterinary pharmaceutical agents. She is a
past president of both the American College of Toxicology and the
Roundtable of Toxicology Consultants.
M. Alice Ottoboni lectures, writes, and consults in the field
of toxicology. As Staff Toxicologist with the California State
Department of Public Health for over twenty years, she originated,
designed, and performed numerous toxicological studies of
environmental factors of importance to public health. She is the
author of the previous editions of The Dose Makes the Poison.
