Talk:Toxicology

Unclean food

The clean animals article and the Clean animals article has a section marked "scientific studies" that concentrates on the results of a notable pharmacologist David Macht.

Does anyone know if his results are uncontested, or are contested, and therefore if the section is neutral or not?

(Please edit that article rather than contacting me, I'm not that interested, I just noticed it had a neutrality problems sticker when I was going past it) Clinkophonist 16:31, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Methanol is Poisonous

The second paragraph in this article contains a significant error when it states "methanol, which is not poisonous itself". Actually, methanol is very toxic. The ACGIH TLV is 200 ppm. Bluntly, if you drink a little methanol, you will go blind - permanently, and, if you drink a lot, you will die. WVhybrid 16:03, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

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I agree with WVhybrid. The statement that you quoted is potentially misleading and should be deleted or at least reworded. Although it is, in fact, a metabolite of methonal that is responsible for biological damage, it is nonetheless correct to say that methanol is "poisonous". In other words, just because methanol needs to be metabolized to an active form for toxicity to take place, doesn't mean that methanol cannot be considered a "poison." It's just semantics, I know, but it could mislead some people into thinking that methanol is not toxic. Jay Litman 16:06, 22 September 2006

the point there, is that it is the metabolyte of methanol that has the poisonous effect; which is why ethanol is an antidote to methanol poisoning, which works by competitive inhibition. -- 208.76.231.143 (talk) 14:39, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Toxicology and animals

I noticed that the link in the info box to venomous animals went to a deleted page.

Also, I was looking for information on wildlife toxicology, which is alluded to in the concepts of bioaccumalation and biomagnification, but the article has little about the effects of pollutants on other species.

This is the first time I've looked at this page, and will start trying to figure out how to include these areas of information. - Michael J Swassing (talk) 04:26, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

you all have way too much spare time :D —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.110.87.249 (talk) 09:13, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

New sections?

Should there be new sections included for medical toxicology and forensic toxicology? If I'm not mistaken, the lion's share of toxicology applications belong in these two fields and deserve their own sections. --206.194.127.112 (talk) 23:15, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Ahh, disregard this one... Right after I posted it I noticed that these are, in fact, separate articles on Wiki. Perhaps they should be linked, though... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.194.127.112 (talk) 23:17, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

We need an article on Medical toxicology

--Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:43, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Paracelsus quote

Where or when precisely did Paracelsus say "Sola dosis facit venenum." ? Because the Paracelsus article doesn't mention the quote, and instead gives a longer German equivalent. Did Paracelsus write in German or in Latin, and in which text might either of these be found? --76.217.95.224 (talk) 23:56, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Toxicology Task Force

Just wanted to announce the creation of a new Toxicology Task Force under WikiProject Medicine. Feel free to come and sign up. Thanks -- Jrtayloriv (talk) 04:06, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

LD 50 testing on animals

it should be mentioned why LD-50 testing on animals is no longer required: because its value is greatly diminished when we now have good tests on cells that we can compare, combined with the inherent cruelty of killing large numbers of animals. -- 208.76.231.143 (talk) 14:45, 14 May 2012 (UTC)