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Lecture 1 - Introduction

Learning Objectives

  1. Introduce the course and course expectations.
  2. Define toxicology and food toxicology.
  3. List the course of study.
  4. Examine the interaction of toxicology and risk analysis.
  5. Define risk assessment, risk communication, risk management.
  6. Examine the fundamentals of human health risk assessment.
  7. Discuss risk perception.
  8. List the course goals.
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Learning Objectives

  1. Introduce the course and course expectations.
  2. Define toxicology and food toxicology.
  3. List the course of study.
  4. Examine the interaction of toxicology and risk analysis.
  5. Define risk assessment, risk communication, risk management.
  6. Examine the fundamentals of human health risk assessment.
  7. Discuss risk perception.
  8. List the course goals.

Advance Reading

  1. Review the course Web site.
  2. Review the table of contents of the course texts.
  3. Hughes, pp 1-16.
  4. Shibamoto & Bjeldanes, pp 1-5

Suggested Reading

Resources

Keywords

  • Food Toxicology
  • Antidotes
  • Biosphere
  • Cells
  • Clinical toxicology
  • Descriptive toxicology
  • Ebers papyrus
  • Forensic toxicology
  • Hazardous waste
  • Industrial toxicology
  • Infinite dilution
  • Macromolecules
  • Mechanistic toxicology
  • Molecules
  • Morbidity
  • Mortality
  • Orfila
  • Organ system
  • Organelles
  • Organs
  • Paracelsus