The Three Most Important Misunderstood Concepts Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacotoxicology/Biokinetics

Knowledge of effects of toxins is often limited to single doses and methods agnostic to solubility. Interactions of liability cannot easily be sorted out among corporate toxins. Change is needed.

In the one-of-a-kind online course I’m teaching this semester at IPAK-EDU, I recently reviewed “concepts of toxicology” with the students. Given what I see happening as society wakes up to the toxic soup we’ve created, the “hows” of environmental toxicology - what gets measured and how the toxicity of a compound is determined - are important. Concepts s…