September 2017 – Perspectives on Environmental Toxicity

Air. Water. Sanitation. In the modern era, a diverse range of opinions on how—and to what extent—pollution impacts human health has been documented. In this new video, Dr. Jeffrey Bland offers not only his own opinion on this subject, but also his perspectives about how the field of environmental toxicology is evolving into a wholly new scientific discipline as a result of sensitive and sophisticated analytical tools, techniques, and technologies.

In past decades, the very word “toxicology” was generally used to refer to episodes of acute (and often lethal) exposures to poisonous . . .