What is environmental toxicology?
“Ecotoxicology”
Definition:
“Study of impacts of pollutants on the structure
and function of ecosystem”
Man-made poisonous chemical and their effect on the
environment
Does not include the study of natural occurring toxins,
for example plants or animals
Environmental toxicology is a new discipline that grew
out of studies on the environmental fate and transport
of pesticides in the 1940s and 1950s
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