Knowing about the field of environmental toxicology
Monday, October 6th, 2008Due to the changing regulations, re-categorization of various chemical hazards has helped in discovering the different health effects on the human body. There are experienced and expert toxicologists who provide their professional services of environmental toxicology in order to detect the various causes and effects produced by environmental hazards. Some of the environmental exposure aspects are suffered due to the presence of following toxics in the environment thereby affecting the health and life of its inhabitants:
* Diesel
* Lead
* Cadmium
* Hydrochloric Acid
* Gasoline
* Benzene
* Solvents
* MTBE
* Manganese
The expert environmental toxicologists witness and offer scientific proof in order to highlight the effect and cause relationship between the health effects and exposure including the toxic and irritant chemicals as well as carcinogenic agents. But the exposure of such environmental hazards is not just limited to these two chemicals and agents and there are some other toxins as well.
Some other harmful toxics include chromium, asbestos, dioxins, ammonia, latex, pahs, btex, contamination in the drinking water, herbicides, pesticides, molds, carbon tetrachloride and formaldehyde.
The various diseases caused due to the exposure of toxic and irritant chemicals include kidney failure, cardiovascular effects, gastrointestinal manifestations, metabolic effects, liver damage, symptoms of peripheral and central nervous system and other symptoms of lower and upper respiratory tract. Other health problems suffered as a result of contact with the carcinogenic agents are lymphomas, kidney cancer, brain cancer, bladder cancer, leukemia, mesothelioma, stomach cancer, myelodysplasias lung cancer and myelomas. The expert witness testimony contributes in providing professional medical opinion for causation, future medicinal monitoring and health effects that are related to the chemical and toxic exposures.