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. Mom was right, at least about fruits and vegetables. Bruce Ames Interview

Suggested Reading

• A Brief History of Poisoning, BBC
• History of Toxicology Timeline.

Keywords

1. Food Toxicology
2. Antidotes
3. Biosphere
4. Cells
5. Clinical toxicology
6. Descriptive toxicology
7. Ebers papyrus
8. Forensic toxicology
9. Hazardous waste
10. Industrial toxicology
11. Infinite dilution
12. Macromolecules
13. Mechanistic toxicology

14. Molecules
15. Morbidity
16. Mortality
17. Orfila
18. Organ system
19. Organelles
20. Organs
21. Paracelsus