TY - JOUR
T1 - Ecosystem health. IV. The national animal poison information network database as a tool for ecological risk assessment
AU - Beasley, Val R.
AU - Schaeffer, David J.
N1 - Funding Information:
’ This research was partially supported by the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. Environmental Division. Additional support was provided by the Department of Veterinary Biosciences and by the Illinois Animal Poison Information Center. 2 To whom correspondence should be addressed. ’ This is Paper VII in this author’s “Environmental Audit” series.
Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1989/8
Y1 - 1989/8
N2 - Toxicology is a unique discipline in human and veterinary medicine because there are orders of magnitude more toxicants available to man and animals than all known pathogenic microorganisms and parasites. The study of toxicologic responses of ecosystems to contaminants, ecoepidemiology, are concerned with identifying chemically induced causes and determining effects on and links among populations, communities, and ecosystems. Necessary activities implied by the term "epizootiologic ecotoxicology" are the systematic compilation and analysis of "health" data for ecosystem components. This concept paper describes the value and limitations of adapting methods used by the National Animal Poison Information Network (NAPINet) for epizootiologic ecotoxicology studies. It is concluded that NAPINet methodology, as part of an innovative use of population statistics and clinical measurements, could eventually be adapted into a valuable component of a standardized approach to epizootiologic ecotoxicology.
AB - Toxicology is a unique discipline in human and veterinary medicine because there are orders of magnitude more toxicants available to man and animals than all known pathogenic microorganisms and parasites. The study of toxicologic responses of ecosystems to contaminants, ecoepidemiology, are concerned with identifying chemically induced causes and determining effects on and links among populations, communities, and ecosystems. Necessary activities implied by the term "epizootiologic ecotoxicology" are the systematic compilation and analysis of "health" data for ecosystem components. This concept paper describes the value and limitations of adapting methods used by the National Animal Poison Information Network (NAPINet) for epizootiologic ecotoxicology studies. It is concluded that NAPINet methodology, as part of an innovative use of population statistics and clinical measurements, could eventually be adapted into a valuable component of a standardized approach to epizootiologic ecotoxicology.
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U2 - 10.1016/0273-2300(89)90013-5
DO - 10.1016/0273-2300(89)90013-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 2772270
AN - SCOPUS:0024396173
SN - 0273-2300
VL - 10
SP - 63
EP - 73
JO - Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
JF - Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
IS - 1
ER -