Mammalian Toxicology of Insecticides (Issues in Toxicology #12) (Hardcover)
The book reviews general issues relating to the mammalian toxicity of insecticides, including target/non-target specificity, nomenclature and metabolism of insecticides. It then goes on to discuss specific types of insecticides.
Timothy C Marrs, OBE is currently a Consulting Toxicologist for Edentox. He was formerly Chief Toxicologist at the Food Standards Agency in London and, before that, Senior Medical Officer at the Department of Health where he led a team studying human health aspects of pesticides and veterinary medicines. Previous to that, he was Senior Medical Officer (Research) at the Chemical Defence Establishment, Porton Down. Timothy Marrs is also a Consulting Clinical Toxicologist at the West Midlands Poisons Unit in Birmingham and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal College of Physicians of London, and the Academy of Toxicological Sciences in the USA. He has edited a number of books and written many papers on toxicology and allied subjects. He is a member of several government committees.