Predicting Chemical Toxicity and Fate Book

Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSARs) are increasingly used to predict the toxicity and fate of chemicals both to man and in the environment. The increased use of QSAR has come from a variety of areas (academic, industrial, regulatory) and has been spawned from a realization that there are very few toxicological data for the vast numbers of chemicals released into the environment. More recently, concern about animal welfare and testing, has furthered the efforts in this area. Despite this interest, there is little coherent information covering these broad areas, and recommendations made from the regulatory and industrial users of QSARs are not recorded.Predicting Chemical Toxicity and Fate will fill an obvious need by providing a comprehensive explanation of state of the prediction methods. Uniquely, it will be a practical book that illustrates the use of these techniques in real life scenarios. This book will demystify QSARs for those students unsure of them, and professionals in environmental toxicology and chemistry will find this a useful reference in their everyday working lives..Read More