Environmental toxicology / editors Katalin Gruiz, Department of Applied Biotechnology and Food Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary, Tamás Meggyes, Berlin, Germany, Éva Fenyvesi, Cyclolab, Budapest, Hungary.

Table of Content

1. Environmental Toxicology - A general overview
1. Introduction, basic definitions
1.1 Toxicology and its role
1.2 Regulatory toxicology for chemical substances and contaminated land
1.3 Future of environmental toxicology
1.4 What environment means in the context of toxicology
1.5 Environment toxicology versus human toxicology
Etc.

2. Adverse effects to be measured by environmental toxicology
2.1 Hazardous effects of chemical substances
2.2 Toxic effects of chemical substances
2.3 Carcinogenic effects
2.4 Mutagenic effects
2.5 Reprotoxicity
Etc.

3. Interaction of chemical substance with living organisms
3.1 Dose-response relationship
3.2 Test end points: the results of the environmental toxicity test
3.3 Classification of environmental toxicological tests
3.4 Environmental toxicology in relation to hazard and risk management
3.5 Statistical evaluation of ecotoxicological tests
Etc.

4. Aquatic toxicology
1. Introduction to aquatic toxicology
2. Human and ecosystem exposure to aquatic hazards
3. Some commonly used aquatic test organisms for testing adverse effects
4. Measuring adverse effects of chemical substance on the aquatic ecosystem
5. Some commonly used aquatic methods
Etc.

5. Terrestrial toxicology
1. Introduction
2. Terrestrial test organisms
3. Measuring terrestrial toxicity: end points and methods
4. Standard and non standardized test methods
5. Non-standard toxicity test methods
Etc.

6. Advanced methods for chemical characterization of soil pollutants
1. Introduction
2. Analytical methods for the determination of inorganic compounds
2.2 X-ray fluorescence spectrometry
3. Analytical methods for analysis of organic pollutants

7. Bioaccessibilty and bioavailability in risk assessment
1. Introduction
2. Managing bioaccessibilty of contaminants in the environment
3. Bioavailability and bioaccessibilty - definition
4. Accessing bioavailability of contaminants
5. Mathematical models for contaminant bioavailability in soils
Etc.

8. Microcosm models and technological experiments
1. Introduction
2. Aquatic microcosms for screening chemical substances and technologies
3. Soil micro-and microcosms for modeling environmental processes
4. Biodegradation and biodegradation-based remediation studies in soil microcosms
5. Testing technologies based on contaminants stabilization

9. Data evaluation and interpretation in environmental toxicology.
1. Introduction
2. Inhibition rate
3. Concentration / dose-response relationship
4. Evaluation of the response based on the growth curves of cultured organisms
5. Evaluation of the effect of contaminants on heat production

Includes Index: p 545 - 563