Occupational toxicology

Elizabeth V. Wattenberg

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-824315-2.00572-8

Occupational toxicology

Elizabeth V. Wattenberg

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The goal of occupational toxicology is to protect worker health. Historically, studies that investigate how workplace conditions affect worker health have provided some of the strongest evidence that exposure to substances in the external environment, such as chemicals, can damage health. Toxicology studies are used to investigate how substances disrupt biological systems to harm health, develop methods to assess the health risks of workplace exposures, and establish occupational exposure limits. Traditional toxicology studies use animal models. New methods for more efficiently predicting and assessing toxicity are being developed based on knowledge of molecular and cellular biology and computational methods.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Toxicology, Fourth Edition
Subtitle of host publication	Volume 1-9
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	V7-49-V7-56
Volume	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9780128243152
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824315-2.00572-8
State	Published - Jan 1 2023

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Keywords

Adverse outcome pathways
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
Biomarkers
Biotransformation
Health risk assessment
Molecular toxicology
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Permissible exposure limits
Threshold limit values
Toxicogenetics
Toxicogenomics

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